Yes; except for working on alignment, where it’s pretty easy to care about raising the odds of sentient beings surviving and flourishing in our light-cone. After THAT we can figure out how people can work on projects without a sense of inadequacy as motivation.
Or get over our cultural focus on inadequacy and let people just enjoy lazing about and screwing around. What’s so bad about stagnation if you nobody needs to work to survive?
I don’t think it depends on that at all, in theory you can do any type of optimisation work without calling it inadequacy.
And after alignment is solved, I don’t think our work ends. It is human to strive. When I say “it’s your job to improve things” The ‘you’ is pointed at every human seat of consciousness. That’s what they do. They don’t stop wanting to create except out of heartbreak and shame and fear. I think it’s possible that we will one day have good reasons to stagnate, I’m far from sure of it, because peace has varying shades of excellence, and staying at the height of excellence may require ongoing striving too.
Yes; except for working on alignment, where it’s pretty easy to care about raising the odds of sentient beings surviving and flourishing in our light-cone. After THAT we can figure out how people can work on projects without a sense of inadequacy as motivation.
Or get over our cultural focus on inadequacy and let people just enjoy lazing about and screwing around. What’s so bad about stagnation if you nobody needs to work to survive?
I don’t think it depends on that at all, in theory you can do any type of optimisation work without calling it inadequacy.
And after alignment is solved, I don’t think our work ends. It is human to strive. When I say “it’s your job to improve things” The ‘you’ is pointed at every human seat of consciousness. That’s what they do. They don’t stop wanting to create except out of heartbreak and shame and fear. I think it’s possible that we will one day have good reasons to stagnate, I’m far from sure of it, because peace has varying shades of excellence, and staying at the height of excellence may require ongoing striving too.