“But this is not an at all useful way of thinking about the world. If we submit to fatalism then there isn’t much point in trying to determine anything ourselves, including how to create an fAI and live forever… If we do it, we do it.”
If we do it we do it BECAUSE we try to do it, BECAUSE we try to determine it, etc.
The archives here in 2008 are largely about how to deal with living in a lawful universe.
“But this is not an at all useful way of thinking about the world. If we submit to fatalism then there isn’t much point in trying to determine anything ourselves, including how to create an fAI and live forever… If we do it, we do it.”
If we do it we do it BECAUSE we try to do it, BECAUSE we try to determine it, etc. The archives here in 2008 are largely about how to deal with living in a lawful universe.