There may be a limit to the individual intelligence of an organism: once a mind figures out how it works, it is going to opt out of serving its evolutionary reward functions. Intelligence may be capped a hair above understanding AI. #LebowskiTheorem
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Theirs is a dead end though (and I understand that this is your central point), as hacking your reward function is usually going to be detrimental (from an evolutionary perspective). At the very least, it flies in the face of all the evolution that created you.
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Which is the whole point. Evolution is a fascist slaughterhouse; the purpose of life is to eat, i.e. to scrape negentropy from the universe until it sucked its puddle dry and the tides of entropy suffocate it. Humans are a glorified kind of yeast.
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The only thing more meaningless than living just to perpetuate more life is hacking that evolved reward function to remove your one intrinsic imperative.
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The opposite of this "nirvana in the face of oblivion" is a system of beliefs designed to spread virally and infect as many people as possible, e.g. certain religions. It is a sort of "desperate clinging to immortality"; whether the immortal bit is their progeny or their ideas.
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