Your personally being inconvenienced by the heat death of the universe is even less likely than winning the powerball lottery; if you wouldn’t spend $1 on a lottery ticket, why spend $1 worth of time worrying about the limits of entropy? Sure, it’s the most unavoidable of existential risks, but it’s vanishingly unlikely to be the one that gets you.
Why should I only emotionally care about things that will affect me?
I don’t see any good reason to be seriously depressed about any Far fact; but if any degree of sadness is ever an appropriate response to anything Far, the inevitability of death seems like one of the best candidates.
Your personally being inconvenienced by the heat death of the universe is even less likely than winning the powerball lottery; if you wouldn’t spend $1 on a lottery ticket, why spend $1 worth of time worrying about the limits of entropy? Sure, it’s the most unavoidable of existential risks, but it’s vanishingly unlikely to be the one that gets you.
Why should I only emotionally care about things that will affect me?
I don’t see any good reason to be seriously depressed about any Far fact; but if any degree of sadness is ever an appropriate response to anything Far, the inevitability of death seems like one of the best candidates.