Telos

My personal context file

This page is a subset of my personal TELOS file, showing my problems, missions, goals, metrics, and a few other TELOS components.

In addition to what's here, the top-level navigation for this site is basically a breakout of other sections of my TELOS file as well.

Problems

In line with this essay, these are what I view as the most important problems in the world.

P1: People lack meaning in their lives, and this is about to get far worse because of AI and robotics taking away most traditional jobs.

P2: People are stuck in a 1950's style hierarchical mindset that makes them think they're not one of the "special ones" with ideas and dreams.

P3: People have poor models for how the world works, and the lack the tools to properly improve them.

Missions

M1: Increase human Eudaimonia by helping people identify, articulate, and pursue their own purpose in life.

M2: Build systems—heavily leveraging the latest in AI—that help people upgrade to the best possible version of themselves (Human 3.0).

M3: Transfer (or store) my and B's minds into a format that we can upload into the next (digital) version of our lives.

Notes

  1. This feels very strange to put on the internet, but 1) it's not the whole file, and 2) it's worth it to get other people to do something similar.