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brin_bellway[fairly strong cw: death]
oh my *god*, you are going to fucking *traumatise* some poor kid by giving them "Somebody Will", what the fuck is *wrong* with you
(A few years back I came so close to actually listening to "Somebody Will", but fortunately I happened to see the lyrics first, at which point I realised what an *incredibly fucking depressing* song it is and noped out of there.)
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Also, while I love "I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing)", a large part of what makes it good is *the circumstances under which it was recorded*. You cannot make an earthbound cover: to be done right it *has* to be sung, absolute minimum, by someone who *has been* in space, and if at all possible by someone who *is currently* in space.
(otherwise it's just more fucking ~aspirational~ shit same as "Somebody Will": your life and everything in it contains nothing of terminal value, you're just an instrumental good, even the *foundations* of what is Right will swallow you up with barely a trace
No. I build *loads* of foundations, but I do it for *myself*. *Future generations* are an instrumental good, and to the extent that they do not make a good instrument--the extent to which even a vast and thriving near-future society will not figure out how to keep me alive, the chance that even a vast and thriving far-future society will never figure out how to revive me--they are a tiebreaker, something you might as well want all else equal because it is ever-so-abstractly better than nothing.
(In practice, other people--those who currently exist and those who do not yet--are so instrumentally valuable that barring weird edge cases one never really needs to *decide* whether or not one terminally values them, so it is very hard to be *sure* that the above paragraph captures my full feelings on the matter. But when I query my justifications, that's what I get.))
oh my *god*, you are going to fucking *traumatise* some poor kid by giving them "Somebody Will", what the fuck is *wrong* with you
(A few years back I came so close to actually listening to "Somebody Will", but fortunately I happened to see the lyrics first, at which point I realised what an *incredibly fucking depressing* song it is and noped out of there.)
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Also, while I love "I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing)", a large part of what makes it good is *the circumstances under which it was recorded*. You cannot make an earthbound cover: to be done right it *has* to be sung, absolute minimum, by someone who *has been* in space, and if at all possible by someone who *is currently* in space.
(otherwise it's just more fucking ~aspirational~ shit same as "Somebody Will": your life and everything in it contains nothing of terminal value, you're just an instrumental good, even the *foundations* of what is Right will swallow you up with barely a trace
No. I build *loads* of foundations, but I do it for *myself*. *Future generations* are an instrumental good, and to the extent that they do not make a good instrument--the extent to which even a vast and thriving near-future society will not figure out how to keep me alive, the chance that even a vast and thriving far-future society will never figure out how to revive me--they are a tiebreaker, something you might as well want all else equal because it is ever-so-abstractly better than nothing.
(In practice, other people--those who currently exist and those who do not yet--are so instrumentally valuable that barring weird edge cases one never really needs to *decide* whether or not one terminally values them, so it is very hard to be *sure* that the above paragraph captures my full feelings on the matter. But when I query my justifications, that's what I get.))
