I am very encouraged (although, perhaps anthropically I should be discouraged for not having been the first one to discover it) that I am not the only one who thought of this (also, see here.)
I was thinking about running this idea by some physicists and philosophers to get further feedback on whether it is sound. It does seem like adding at least a small element of this to a moral parliament might not be a bad idea, especially considering that making it only 1% of the moral parliament would capture the vast majority of value in terms of orders of magnitude (indeed, if at any given moment a single person who is encountering this idea just tried to “live in the moment” or smile for a second at the moment they thought of it, and then everyone forgot about it forever, we would still capture the vast majority [again, in orders of magnitude terms] of the value of the idea; but this continues to be true in every proceeding moment.)
Anyways, thanks for posting this, I am hoping to come back to my post sometime soon and add some things to it and correct a few mistakes I think I made. Let me know if you’d like to be involved in any further investigation of this idea! By the way, here’s the version I wrote in case you are interested in checking it out.
Hi Magnus, thank you for writing out this idea!
I am very encouraged (although, perhaps anthropically I should be discouraged for not having been the first one to discover it) that I am not the only one who thought of this (also, see here.)
I was thinking about running this idea by some physicists and philosophers to get further feedback on whether it is sound. It does seem like adding at least a small element of this to a moral parliament might not be a bad idea, especially considering that making it only 1% of the moral parliament would capture the vast majority of value in terms of orders of magnitude (indeed, if at any given moment a single person who is encountering this idea just tried to “live in the moment” or smile for a second at the moment they thought of it, and then everyone forgot about it forever, we would still capture the vast majority [again, in orders of magnitude terms] of the value of the idea; but this continues to be true in every proceeding moment.)
Anyways, thanks for posting this, I am hoping to come back to my post sometime soon and add some things to it and correct a few mistakes I think I made. Let me know if you’d like to be involved in any further investigation of this idea! By the way, here’s the version I wrote in case you are interested in checking it out.