Date: 2020-12-21 08:51 am (UTC)
... I mean it seems like a fair read of his statements about optimizing-subjective-experience as a process that he'd be fine with people who did not prefer to feel some particular emotion constantly not preferring to do so; that the ideal happiness drug is the one that stops perfectly just short of being "too much" for a person for whom that is conceptually possible. (but also that your concern with the things of petty mortals like "survival" or "values" is itself an outmoded thing of the past and you won't need the impulses related to it in the glorious post-human future).

He mostly just seems unbelievable naive to me WRT the entire notion of post-darwinism as a concept, I think on net. The kind of person to whom bridges are sold. This is esp problematic given how many pitfalls there are between us and his dream. We would have to pass through the kind of utopia I tend to plan for (and consider dangerously optimistic itself) and probably several more grand cycles of world-fixing-and-healing-the-conception-of-what-good-we-can-do-for-the-great-work to even kinda try something like that but the technology will be there and dangerous much sooner.

How do you think of - the thing-which-you-get-which-isn't-self-preservation then, if not as happiness? I don't get the impression that you make literally every decision with survival as the sole and primary element of utility?
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