ank's Shortform

RATIONAL UTOPIA DISCUSSION

I consider thinking about the extremely long-term future important if we don't want to end up in some dystopia. The question is this: if we'll eventually have almost infinite compute what should we build?

I think it's hard or impossible to answer it 100% right, so it's better to build something that gives us as many choices as possible (including choices to undo), something close to a multiverse (possibly virtual) - because this is the only way to make sure we don't permanently censor ourselves into a corner.

So it's better to purposefully build infinitely many utopias and dystopias and everything in between we can choose from freely, then to be too risk-averse and stumbling randomly into a single permanent dystopia.

The mechanism for quick and cost-free switching between universes/observers in the future human-made multiverse - is essential to get us as close as possible to some perfect utopia - it'll allow us to debug the future.

What if goodness and good deeds are gradual long-term freedom maximization for the observers? And the utopia then is a lot like a multiverse - as many observers as possible with as many freedoms as possible. 

The jinn that gives you infinitely many wishes but there is no catch - the jinn shows you the outcomes, too.

ank