GALAXY BRAIN RESISTANCE

Summary from the TLDR Crypto newsletter

"Galaxy brain resistance" is a measure of how difficult it is to abuse reasoning styles to rationalize pre-decided conclusions. Low-resistance patterns enable harmful rationalizations across crypto and AI: inevitabilism (full automation is inevitable, so we should hasten it), longtermism (disconnection from reality by claiming vague trillion-year benefits), and financial apologia (justifying risky speculation as "class mobility for the poor" despite zero-sum casino dynamics where concave utility curves make large coinflips net-negative). Power maximization strategies in EA/AI safety circles where "accumulate power to do good at pivotal moments" has become indistinguishable from greedy egomaniacs. Solutions should emphasize deontological ethics with hard rules (don't kill, don't steal, and respect freedom) over consequentialism's lack of galaxy brain resistance and holding correct incentive bags.