Even in a world with unhealthy pleasures like sugar, I still think there’s overall significant positive correlation between what feels good, what’s good for you, and what’s good for others. Most of the time.
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The Bene Gesserit do it by breeding. Dune explores ways of being human, not being humanist. Being human in the Bene Gesserit sense (or the Fremen sense) is abhorrent to us. From the perspective of the Bene Gesserit, we are only half human, from our perspective, they are fascist.
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Are you sure they’re fascist?
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One trait of the human mind is that - in general - imagined/simulated but not experienced low-time preference only generates better plans but not better actions. Experiencing emotionally the benefits of low-time preference is a necessary step towards changing behavior.
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In other words,the reward function at the behavioral stage can only be changed through emotional experiences The fact that the reward function *at the planning stage* can be changed through better mental models tricks us into believing that emotional experiences aren’t necessary
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the how to manual seems to be in old school yogi mystic / hatha yoga teachings (buddha teachings, others ... control your mind) ... it's all as a man thinketh
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What about reducing genetic load through a Bene Gesserit-like breeding program aimed at getting people with relatively few rare mutations to have lots of kids, and then iterating.
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Basically that is increasing the fitness of non-rare alleles. Can't you do that in easier ways?
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there is a book you must read called Philospher and the Wolf - a semi autobiographic book on nature of the wolf (animal) vs nature of the ape (human) as humans , the premeditated intent is a massive burden to live with. animals enjoy the simplicity of living vs dying
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> how to make humans who are all-round just better at being human. There is a well known answer to this, but we don't want to hear it and we punish those who speak of it.
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amen
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