Thank you, I found this pretty interesting. Of course no single one-sentence narrative will capture everything that goes on in the world, but in practice we need to reduce complexity and focus anyway, and may implicitly adopt similar narratives anyway, so I found it interesting to reflect explicitly on them.
FWIW, the one that resonates most for me personally was:
There are risks to the future of humanity (‘existential risks’), and vastly more is at stake in these than in anything else going on (if we also include catastrophic trajectory changes). Meanwhile the world’s thinking and responsiveness to these risks is incredibly minor and they are taken unseriously.
A lot of the ones appealing to ‘weird’ issues (acausal trade, quantum worlds, simulations, …) ring true and important to me, but seem less directly relevant to my actual actions.
My reaction to a lot of the ‘generic’ ones (externalities, wasted efforts, …) is something like: “This sounds true, but I’m not sure why I should think I’ll be able to do something about this.”
Thank you, I found this pretty interesting. Of course no single one-sentence narrative will capture everything that goes on in the world, but in practice we need to reduce complexity and focus anyway, and may implicitly adopt similar narratives anyway, so I found it interesting to reflect explicitly on them.
FWIW, the one that resonates most for me personally was:
A lot of the ones appealing to ‘weird’ issues (acausal trade, quantum worlds, simulations, …) ring true and important to me, but seem less directly relevant to my actual actions.
My reaction to a lot of the ‘generic’ ones (externalities, wasted efforts, …) is something like: “This sounds true, but I’m not sure why I should think I’ll be able to do something about this.”