To share something that might be non-public: Pasek was very much into letting timeless decision theory drive him even before he became in contact with Ziz. Pasek might have been the person with whom I talked deeply who was taking timeless decision theory the most seriously.
Can you share some examples of things Pasek did for TDT-ish reasons that most people either wouldn’t do at all or at least wouldn’t do them for TDT-ish reasons.
(I’m aware that this might be private stuff that you wouldn’t like to share to any degree greater than what you’ve said already.)
Pasek did couchsurf at my place in the days after a LessWrong Community Weekend in Berlin. That was before he went to the Bay Area, so probably 8 or 9 years ago and before he seemed to make contact with Ziz which was after Pazek left the Bay Area and moved to live with other rationalists in a group house in Gran Canaria. Pazek’s contact with Ziz seemed to be mostly online while living in Gran Canaria.
If you read Pasek’s post where he thinks about committing suicide, there’s plenty of TDT-thinking in it. I matched my idea of how Pasek thinks even before engaging with Ziz.
Pasek was TDT-ish vegan.
Pasek had some QS tracking for how he spent every waking hour of the day that he did on paper and seemed to not suffer from akrasia while guiding his actions.
If I remember right, that he said that stealing is okay in cases where the TDT calculation would be in favor of stealing where traditional morality would say stealing is bad. I don’t think that resulted in Pasek actually stealing things but I think we talked about some case where he thought it was justified to steal which surprised me at the time. My memory is here very fussy.
Can you share some examples of things Pasek did for TDT-ish reasons that most people either wouldn’t do at all or at least wouldn’t do them for TDT-ish reasons.
(I’m aware that this might be private stuff that you wouldn’t like to share to any degree greater than what you’ve said already.)
Pasek did couchsurf at my place in the days after a LessWrong Community Weekend in Berlin. That was before he went to the Bay Area, so probably 8 or 9 years ago and before he seemed to make contact with Ziz which was after Pazek left the Bay Area and moved to live with other rationalists in a group house in Gran Canaria. Pazek’s contact with Ziz seemed to be mostly online while living in Gran Canaria.
If you read Pasek’s post where he thinks about committing suicide, there’s plenty of TDT-thinking in it. I matched my idea of how Pasek thinks even before engaging with Ziz.
Pasek was TDT-ish vegan.
Pasek had some QS tracking for how he spent every waking hour of the day that he did on paper and seemed to not suffer from akrasia while guiding his actions.
If I remember right, that he said that stealing is okay in cases where the TDT calculation would be in favor of stealing where traditional morality would say stealing is bad. I don’t think that resulted in Pasek actually stealing things but I think we talked about some case where he thought it was justified to steal which surprised me at the time. My memory is here very fussy.