let's pretend that you had the choice between being some degree of happy all the time and having emotional states that a reasonable person of the present day would consider appropriate responses to your experiences. which would you choose?
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The whole "the only point of life is to be happy" camp terrifies me. Always has.
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Like, y'all really looked across this vast expansive universe we occupy a tiny corner of, and your key takeaway was "I exist here to enable my own joy" ? That's some hardcore metaphysical narcissism.
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I feel like people have this idea of wireheading that implies you'll just sit there in a stupor with a VR headset and fleshlight/Hitachi magic wand. That's absolutely not how I live it. Ideally, I'm zooted out of my mind, trying to experience the most every moment has to offer.
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This is the uncanny valley idea of what life is about.
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Utilitarianism by another name smells the same.
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Wireheading sounds great assuming physiological downsides and negative externalities could be eliminated, I've never understood the opposition to it. Hook me up to the euphoria machine
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