If it helps - the way I think about it, it's like a terminal diagnosis. You thought you'd live a long life, reach your seventies or eighties, and now it turns out you really only have a couple decades of good health left. After that, who knows what havoc your disease will wreak on your body. But eventually it's okay, because we were all gonna die anyway, and it really just puts the rest of life in perspective. You understand what is really meaningful to you, what you need to do before you can't anymore, and you start deliberately targeting those goals. If people can be joyful and find purpose knowing they only have X amount of years left before a painful decline, then hopefully so can I.
Yeah, this is a great way to think about it and intellectually something I try to do. But emotional it still bums me out, both for my own personal life, but also just for the future of humanity. It's like thinking about how there are probably billions of planets in the universe that could support human life, but I'll certainly never visit them, or even know for sure if they exist. And as we're going, humanity won't either.
If it helps - the way I think about it, it's like a terminal diagnosis. You thought you'd live a long life, reach your seventies or eighties, and now it turns out you really only have a couple decades of good health left. After that, who knows what havoc your disease will wreak on your body. But eventually it's okay, because we were all gonna die anyway, and it really just puts the rest of life in perspective. You understand what is really meaningful to you, what you need to do before you can't anymore, and you start deliberately targeting those goals. If people can be joyful and find purpose knowing they only have X amount of years left before a painful decline, then hopefully so can I.
Yeah, this is a great way to think about it and intellectually something I try to do. But emotional it still bums me out, both for my own personal life, but also just for the future of humanity. It's like thinking about how there are probably billions of planets in the universe that could support human life, but I'll certainly never visit them, or even know for sure if they exist. And as we're going, humanity won't either.
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