{"id":974,"date":"2013-05-16T20:18:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T03:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=974"},"modified":"2013-05-16T20:18:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T03:18:36","slug":"retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Rational agents should never be made <em>worse<\/em> off by more information\u2014well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickbostrom.com\/information-hazards.pdf\">almost never<\/a>. So if I can <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/the-horror-of-naturalism\/\">no<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/relativity\/\">longer<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/relevance\/\">contemplate<\/a> the big picture without life seeming like a bad thing\u2014the fewer needs you have, the fewer ways in which you can be hurt; if you don't exist, you can't be hurt\u2014then maybe I could just\u2014not contemplate it? If my will to live is something that can be destroyed by the truth, then maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/541138-that-which-can-be-destroyed-by-the-truth-should-be\">P. C. Hodgell was wrong<\/a>? This needn't entail self-delusion: distraction is quite sufficient. There are plenty of <em>things to do<\/em> that won't remind me of the vastness of suffering in the multiverse.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Daily life, exercise, practical programming skills, finding a job\u2014pure math and compsci if I need something intellectual. But no philosophy, history, current events, futurism, social science, biology, or game theory. Not much fiction, because stories are about people's pain. I just don't want to know anymore.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Rational agents should never be made worse off by more information\u2014well, almost never. So if I can no longer contemplate the big picture without life seeming like a bad thing\u2014the fewer needs you have, the fewer ways in which you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/retirement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}