Comment by JieJie

There is a quote from Eliezer in the linked article that I hope he is remembered by, because it's actually quite beautiful:

"Coherent Extrapolated Volition (CEV) is our wish if we knew more, thought faster, were more the people we wished we were, had grown up farther together; where the extrapolation converges rather than diverges, where our wishes cohere rather than interfere; extrapolated as we wish that extrapolated, interpreted as we wish that interpreted."

We should, as a society, offer help to people who are caught in the cynicism trap, because we could still have all those things Eliezer sees as our better selves. We just have to spend more time focusing on being on our better selves and less time giving up on each other.