on working hard · louis030195

sometimes people say i work hard

i never really thought about it

i just wake up and do things

what i observe in others is their inability to focus

but anyway, why working hard?

because life is nice

in europe people would say “you are stupid” and then “carpe diem” and stuff like this

“you only live once”, “life is short”

that’s what happen when you are brainwashed

when your main source of knowledge is your natural knowledge (eg what you get when you are born) and the news

which make sense, it’s normal to believe that life is short when you’re mostly based on natural knowledge and that humans always died in the past

but the past does not necessarily predict the future

coming to the point, one of the reason to work hard is to make life long or forever

if you think this is crazy, you are probably not following longevity research, that’s fine, i won’t argue here

now you’ll say it’s egoistic, but, just as in the airplane they tell you to grab the air for yourself first, and then you can help the other, you’re more likely to do anything in the world if you live longer

right?

coming to the second reason, once you made yourself live longer, opportunities multiply, you can make others live longer then, seems one of most valuable action

my last point is love

i believe we only experience a very shallow version of what could be possible in terms of inter-relational emotions and experiences, think about this, imagine what it would be like to have sex with a neuralink in the brain, directly sharing your experience with your partner

even lower tech things like traveling in space, increasing the bandwidth of communication between brains using AI, new psychedelics, etc.

let’s quantify human experience mathematically

dimensions of human connection (H):

verbal bandwidth (v): bits/second of speech
emotional bandwidth (e): emotional states detected/shared
sensory bandwidth (s): sensory channels × resolution
temporal bandwidth (t): processing speed of shared experiences
spatial bandwidth (d): physical dimensions of interaction

current human connection capacity (Hc): v = ~150 words/min × 7 bits/word = 1,050 bits/s e = ~7 basic emotions × 3 levels = 21 states s = 5 senses × 8-bit resolution = 40 bits/channel t = ~100ms cognitive processing delay d = 3 spatial dimensions + 1 temporal

Hc = v × e × s × (1/t) × d ≈ 1k bits/s × 21 × 40 × 10hz × 4 ≈ 8.4 megabits/s of human experience bandwidth

future enhanced connection (Hf): v = direct neural transmission = 1 gigabit/s e = continuous emotional state space = 1 million states s = full sensory streaming = 32-bit × unlimited channels t = near instantaneous = 1ms delay d = n-dimensional quantum entangled states

Hf = v × e × s × (1/t) × d ≈ 1 exabit/s of human experience bandwidth

ratio = Hf/Hc ≈ 10^12

that’s a trillion-fold increase in connection depth like comparing a bacteria’s sensing to a human brain

here’s the thing:

we work hard because we might live forever
living forever multiplies our impact exponentially
and the future of human connection is literally trillion times more intense than what we have now

when people tell you “life is short, enjoy it” tell them “life is potentially infinite, let’s make it happen”

when they say “you work too hard” tell them “you think too small”

because right now we’re all just prototypes early humans trying to bootstrap themselves into something far greater and every hour of work is a pixel in that bigger picture

we’re not just working hard we’re working towards transcendence