Life is a series of existential horrors. Parenthood doesn’t seem to be a bigger change than puberty.
Maybe imagine it as some kind of timeless cooperation. If you value your own existence as good, you should approve of “people like you reproducing”, because that’s the only way how “people like you” can come into existence.
I agree that puberty would be an even greater risk to my value function. However, pre-puberty CapResearcher already lost, it’s post-puberty CapResearcher that tries to preserve their value function now.
I also agree that from the perspective of society, it is quite beneficial to encourage reproduction. However, society would happily let me sacrifice myself for the greater good, without that necessarily being what I want to do.
Fair point, just wanted to specify that this is not about “society” in general, but about “people like you”. If you won’t reproduce, the society will happily go on, just the fraction of people like you in the future will be smaller.
Life is a series of existential horrors. Parenthood doesn’t seem to be a bigger change than puberty.
Maybe imagine it as some kind of timeless cooperation. If you value your own existence as good, you should approve of “people like you reproducing”, because that’s the only way how “people like you” can come into existence.
I agree that puberty would be an even greater risk to my value function. However, pre-puberty CapResearcher already lost, it’s post-puberty CapResearcher that tries to preserve their value function now.
I also agree that from the perspective of society, it is quite beneficial to encourage reproduction. However, society would happily let me sacrifice myself for the greater good, without that necessarily being what I want to do.
Fair point, just wanted to specify that this is not about “society” in general, but about “people like you”. If you won’t reproduce, the society will happily go on, just the fraction of people like you in the future will be smaller.