Moloch enthroned: if you want to do something worthwhile in the world, you have to gain power and accumulate resources to do it with. and boom, now you're good at gaining power and accumulating resources, not doing the worthwhile thing
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oh, you were gonna fix this by getting people who already have power and resources to enable you to do the worthwhile thing so you can focus on it? boom, now you're good at convincing people with power and resources to let you use them, not doing the worthwhile thing
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oh, you were just gonna give up and focus on getting the power and resources and letting specialists in the worthwhile thing handle it? boom, now you're rewarding looking to you like a good person to handle the worthwhile thing, not doing the worthwhile thing
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of course i'm not saying that Taylor Swift is Moloch, ha ha that would be ridiculous that would imply that as a society we were voluntarily sacrificing our children to her
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this is a much funnier version of something i might have said about trying to embed terminal goals such that they survive optimization for achievement of instrumental goals and whether that's a betrayal of your future selfhttps://twitter.com/browserdotsys/status/1174078659830960128 …
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basically, trying to lock in your terminal goals so your future self can't betray them is a straight-up announcement that you know your current goals are so dumb and childish that a version of yourself that isn't so helpless couldn't possibly care about them on their own merits
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Failing to resist urge to respond with “aw thanks”
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Though the fact that social retaliation in response to discovery of such a mindset is one of the best arguments I can imagine for digging one’s heels in and/or committing to no limits on the matter sure is something
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Just because it's obvious doesn't mean it's wrong.
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Alternate solution: Things meaningful and worthwhile are not supposed to be attempted by individuals.https://twitter.com/rezzealaux/status/1175946421138161664 …
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