(The world has plenty of fiery outrage and impulsive action and going-with-the-flow, but not a lot of cold utilitarian calculus, principled integrity, rationalism, utopian humanism, and technical alignment research. If I don’t want humanity’s potential to be snuffed out, I need to prioritize filling those gaps over pure self-expression.)
The specific phrasing “ruthlessly do whatever you want all the time” sounds more MtG-black to me than MtG-red, but if I interpret it as MtG-red, I think I understand what it’s trying to convey. :)
Yep. As the author of https://nothingismere.com/2014/12/03/chaos-altruism/ , I think of myself as an MtG red person who cosplays as esper because I happen to have found myself in a world that has a lot of urgent WUB-shaped problems.
(The world has plenty of fiery outrage and impulsive action and going-with-the-flow, but not a lot of cold utilitarian calculus, principled integrity, rationalism, utopian humanism, and technical alignment research. If I don’t want humanity’s potential to be snuffed out, I need to prioritize filling those gaps over pure self-expression.)
The specific phrasing “ruthlessly do whatever you want all the time” sounds more MtG-black to me than MtG-red, but if I interpret it as MtG-red, I think I understand what it’s trying to convey. :)