I'm not sure that happiness should be the ultimate goal of people. I mean, being happy is just a feeling. Shouldn't we strive to be better people for oneself and society and not the maintenance of one's life for the purpose of a single feeling?
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Replying to @sulphuroxide
happiness was never the point and as far as i can tell thinking happiness is the point is a modern western pathology
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan @sulphuroxide
As far as I can tell from doing introspection with lots of coaching clients, something like neverending oneness and bliss is a terminal goal for many people. You can call the goal something like "Congruence" here - but the congruence still seems to be to some sort of felt sense.
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Replying to @mattgoldenberg @sulphuroxide
Yeah, this seems consistent with what I've heard about e.g. core transformation. There's something I'm confused about here in the direction of wireheading, or like, whether humans meaningfully have preferences about the territory as opposed to just the map.
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Malcolm 🙃cean Retweeted Malcolm 🙃cean
Huh weird. The idea of neverending oneness & bliss sounds super boring to me. I feel like these people actually want this below thing and aren't creative enough to imagine how it could be interesting. (Not suggesting that my "I feel like" is correct)https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1127719448079679489 …
Malcolm 🙃cean added,
Malcolm 🙃cean @Malcolm_OceanReplying to @Malcolm_Ocean @garybasin and 2 othersI think that when people think they're pursuing happiness, what they actually mean is "I WANT OUT" from the endless internal conflict where nothing they do satisfies all of their strategies. https://twitter.com/RealtimeAI/status/1127429453100003328 …4 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean @QiaochuYuan and
Neverending uniform oneness & bliss has no separation / difference / change / time, so it's not, like... an experience with a perceived duration that can be boring or interesting or whatever. Infinite variations in approaching it without quite getting there, though
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Replying to @SarahAMcManus @Malcolm_Ocean and
@algekalipso has related thoughts:https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/08/20/wireheading_done_right/ …3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
This looks meaty, thanks! And I'm still really feeling my discomfort with wireheading reading this.
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan @SarahAMcManus and
@SarahAMcManus@QiaochuYuan@Malcolm_Ocean you guys are paying attention to the dopest stuff, keep it uppic.twitter.com/X2m2Bgwf7c
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Replying to @TurnkeyTyranny @SarahAMcManus and
i don't know who you are but this is AMAZING
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