If humanity ever figures out a way to be open to media but filter out the shiny and distracting cruft then a subgroup that adopts that technology would do a lot better.
Better? So subjective! That subgroup would cease to be part of humanity and turn into paperclip maximiser’s. Even worse, such a subgroup might lose the urges that drove humanity to the stars in the first place and collapse into infinite recursion.
This attitude is what always bothers me about LW, it’s too focused on rationality and effectiveness in and of itself. The shiny and distracting is the goal and what is useful is that which helps us to get more shiny and be distracted even more.
I meant better purely in the sense that they would come to dominate the business/political/evolutionary future of the human race. In the sense that saying X is a better baseball player than Y, conveys no moral judgement that playing baseball is a worthwhile thing to do.
Better? So subjective! That subgroup would cease to be part of humanity and turn into paperclip maximiser’s. Even worse, such a subgroup might lose the urges that drove humanity to the stars in the first place and collapse into infinite recursion.
This attitude is what always bothers me about LW, it’s too focused on rationality and effectiveness in and of itself. The shiny and distracting is the goal and what is useful is that which helps us to get more shiny and be distracted even more.
I meant better purely in the sense that they would come to dominate the business/political/evolutionary future of the human race. In the sense that saying X is a better baseball player than Y, conveys no moral judgement that playing baseball is a worthwhile thing to do.