Personally, I currently plan on never retiring prior to the singularity: I’d just keep working. Well after the singularity, I’m not confident, but it seems hard to plan.
Note: actually retiring is pretty cheap, so if commiting to that is useful for motivation, it should be a good idea even putting aside self interest. Personally, I find the idea of trying to do my best even when I don’t have much to give motivating, at least aspirationally, so I’m planning on doing this.
If (prior to the singularity) I end up in a state where I’m unable to contribute value higher than my cost of living, I’ll probably just do voluntary euthanasia? This is predicated on quite strong longtermist views where current lives aren’t very important. But, maybe it makes sense to instead just move to a place with a very low cost of living and try to live very cheaply (e.g., on a few dollars a day or something) while being as happy as possible?
That said, my understanding is that in the US in the current policy regime, it would be good to stay alive to collect social security to donate (e.g., this value is higher than my cost of living particular when optimizing the cost of living down).
I’m not confident I’ll remain this fanatically non-self-interested on further reflection, but this my median guess for what my future views would look like after thinking about it for the rest of my life.
Personally, I currently plan on never retiring prior to the singularity: I’d just keep working. Well after the singularity, I’m not confident, but it seems hard to plan.
Note: actually retiring is pretty cheap, so if commiting to that is useful for motivation, it should be a good idea even putting aside self interest. Personally, I find the idea of trying to do my best even when I don’t have much to give motivating, at least aspirationally, so I’m planning on doing this.
If (prior to the singularity) I end up in a state where I’m unable to contribute value higher than my cost of living, I’ll probably just do voluntary euthanasia? This is predicated on quite strong longtermist views where current lives aren’t very important. But, maybe it makes sense to instead just move to a place with a very low cost of living and try to live very cheaply (e.g., on a few dollars a day or something) while being as happy as possible?
That said, my understanding is that in the US in the current policy regime, it would be good to stay alive to collect social security to donate (e.g., this value is higher than my cost of living particular when optimizing the cost of living down).
I’m not confident I’ll remain this fanatically non-self-interested on further reflection, but this my median guess for what my future views would look like after thinking about it for the rest of my life.