@qephatziel does it in any way relate to this thread? https://x.com/mimi10v3/status/1725582140480323705
there's something about recursive self improvement & exponential takeoff & extending trend lines to infinity... my brain just shrugs away from it and says everything hits constraints, just as any species does in the environment, and that the world is complex and things are never quite as good or as bad as we imagine
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Reply · Nov 17, 2023same attitude wrt longtermism really, that my error bars grow so large so quickly that it becomes pointless to talk about the distant future as a…Reply · Apr 5, 2023@CustomWetware can you talk more about "takeoff"? I'm not quite convinced that exponential self improvement just happensTweet · Nov 23, 2023"experience of self as infinite cringe recursion"Reply · Oct 16, 2023@xlr8harder ig my problem is more recursive, unconvinced whether I *should* try to not be attached to other ppl's wellbeing