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I am in therapy, she's advised me to treat it not unlike having a terminal illness. Enjoy the days you have, accept that life isn't forever, but still fight for what you can.

The only people not feeling anxiety are ignorant at best. Part of "fighting for what you can" means informing others and boosting public awareness of the dangers ahead, and countering dismissive narratives.

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Don't you think it's a little presumptuous to say that those "not feeling anxiety are ignorant at best"? Many people fully understand the ideas behind the Yudkowskian doom scenario and they simply don't agree with this or that foundational assumption.

Or we don't want to spend the time we have left feeling anxiety the entire time.

They clearly don't understand the scenario if they're still not seriously concerned about the danger.

There might also be people who "simply don't agree with this or that foundational assumption" that a hungry leopard stalking them is a sign of danger, but that won't stop them from being leopard lunch. It also won't stop the rest of the group from slapping them for being an idiot and seeing them as a liability to the group's overall safety.

Some people don't feel anxiety even when sitting in a trench under fire from 30mm autocannons with their buddy lying dead next to them. We're not all the same.

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