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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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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Thesis: I could probably do X. Antithesis: Boom, now you're optimizing some prior of X instead! Synthesis: Break Newcomb's Problem by intending to do literally anything and then failing to do so for incentive reasons.
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This is where I am. I've half come to terms with becoming a convincer of the resource-empowered and handler of thing-doers...and half come to terms with "to wheel and deal for money and prizes is not at all a disreputable waste of your life and sad betrayal of 18-year-old you"
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[in spongebob mocking case] as long as it's for a good cause
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can we cancel power dynamics? i would like cancel culture to do something about power dyna- oh wait i did it again
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can you be good at more than one thing or is this a self-defeating, all-or-nothing kind of scenario?
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Get gud at interviews then.
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