I don’t want to be the main character. I’m afraid I’d make mistakes, and I’m lazy. If I have to make decisions as a human, I’ll make bad decisions. If I’m uplifted to a Mind, I’t still rather have someone else do it. Can’t I just play games, and leave the important stuff to other people?
You are the protagonist of your story whether you like it or not, and you just made a decision. Was it a mistake? That’s up to you. Maybe your story is about playing games, but maybe not.
Refusing to decide is itself a decision, and usually a bad one.
I don’t want to be the main character. I’m afraid I’d make mistakes, and I’m lazy. If I have to make decisions as a human, I’ll make bad decisions. If I’m uplifted to a Mind, I’t still rather have someone else do it. Can’t I just play games, and leave the important stuff to other people?
You are the protagonist of your story whether you like it or not, and you just made a decision. Was it a mistake? That’s up to you. Maybe your story is about playing games, but maybe not.
Refusing to decide is itself a decision, and usually a bad one.
This is a good heuristics for a world without Friendly superintelligences, but how far can we extrapolate it?