Idk I’m a doomer and I haven’t been able to handle it well at all. If I were told “You have cancer, you’re expected to live 5-10 more years”, I’d at least have a few comforts
I’d know that I would be missed, by my family at least, for a few years.
I’d know that, to some extent, my “work would live on” in the form of good deeds I’ve done, people I’ve impacted through effective altruism.
I’d have the comfort of knowing that even I’d been dead for centuries I could still “live on” in the sense that other humans (and indeed, many nonhuman) would share brain design with me, and have drives for food, companionship, empathy, curiosity ect. A super AI by contrast, is just so alien and cold that I can’t consider it my brainspace cousin.
If I were to share my cancer diagnosis with normies, I would get sympathy. But there are very few “safe spaces” where I can share my fear of UFAI risk without getting looked at funny.
The closest community I’ve found are the environmentalist doomers, and although I don’t actually think the environment is close to collapse, I do find it somewhat cathartic to read other people’s accounts of being sad that world is going to die.
Idk I’m a doomer and I haven’t been able to handle it well at all. If I were told “You have cancer, you’re expected to live 5-10 more years”, I’d at least have a few comforts
I’d know that I would be missed, by my family at least, for a few years.
I’d know that, to some extent, my “work would live on” in the form of good deeds I’ve done, people I’ve impacted through effective altruism.
I’d have the comfort of knowing that even I’d been dead for centuries I could still “live on” in the sense that other humans (and indeed, many nonhuman) would share brain design with me, and have drives for food, companionship, empathy, curiosity ect. A super AI by contrast, is just so alien and cold that I can’t consider it my brainspace cousin.
If I were to share my cancer diagnosis with normies, I would get sympathy. But there are very few “safe spaces” where I can share my fear of UFAI risk without getting looked at funny.
The closest community I’ve found are the environmentalist doomers, and although I don’t actually think the environment is close to collapse, I do find it somewhat cathartic to read other people’s accounts of being sad that world is going to die.