Lots of excellent points here. Though this is a particularly relevant one: "One practical consequence has been to heighten our already exaggerated fears of state-sanctioned mood-drugs. Hence millions of screwed-up minds, improvable even today by clinically-tested mood-boosters and anti-anxiety agents, just suffer in silence instead.[...] the human cost in fruitless ill-being is immense"
Control requires predictability - no thoughts and reactions unanticipated by the overseers. A truly creative populace would be chaotic, wild and dangerous. It would be unpredictable.
It seems this or some kind of antinatalism are the best responses to what the world actually is and what darwinian evolution produces. Both positions are quite unpopular in general.
M76Q5 I wonder if we have long distant ancestors, whether they will look back in 1 billion of intelligent self redesign after weighing up the massive amount of bliss they have and will experience, with the suffering endured during Darwinian evolution (which bootstrapped intelligent conscious agents in the first place) - they will think that on balance, it is all for the better that _something_ exists in the universe to experience bliss.
The infinity dragon is better than the hedonistic imperative. With the infinity dragon, the happiness ceiling is boosted towards superhappiness and beyond but the normal day mood doesn't go too high unless you want it to. That means that bad days can still be bad days, normal days can still be normal days, and good days are good days. Super good days in a future utopia can be the superhappiness and beyond. Future mood boosters will have less side effects. Modafinil, Parnate, NSI-189, and others like the Vyvanse and Memantine combo are examples. MDMA is in the grey area, but combining it with Memantine can reduce side effects. For pain reduction, there's kratom. In the future, there's laser neurosurgery which is the basement cleaning part 2 version of the infinity dragon. The laser neurosurgery part might be available in the future. Legalize all! motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qkjdg5/legalization-of-drugs-should-be-part-of-a-transhumanist-agenda
Automation and genetic engineering are evil. Future chemicals and future safer drugs and cognitive enhancers are good. The future is better living through chemistry. The infinity dragon will help solve things better and more testable with less side effects.
>Worse, it is suggested that the price of universal happiness will be the sacrifice of the most hallowed shibboleths of our culture: "motherhood", "home", "family", "freedom", even "love". You lost the game when you called people's most hallowed values "shibboleths". Get the fuck out.
Lots of excellent points here. Though this is a particularly relevant one:
"One practical consequence has been to heighten our already exaggerated fears of state-sanctioned mood-drugs. Hence millions of screwed-up minds, improvable even today by clinically-tested mood-boosters and anti-anxiety agents, just suffer in silence instead.[...] the human cost in fruitless ill-being is immense"
Great quote! Will add to the description of the video :)
Absolutely brilliant, David.
Thank you David! and Thank you Adam! Very powerful and wonderful message :-)
makes me feel rebellious against the current world order of defeatism.
Control requires predictability - no thoughts and reactions unanticipated by the overseers. A truly creative populace would be chaotic, wild and dangerous. It would be unpredictable.
Magnificent!
It seems this or some kind of antinatalism are the best responses to what the world actually is and what darwinian evolution produces. Both positions are quite unpopular in general.
M76Q5 I wonder if we have long distant ancestors, whether they will look back in 1 billion of intelligent self redesign after weighing up the massive amount of bliss they have and will experience, with the suffering endured during Darwinian evolution (which bootstrapped intelligent conscious agents in the first place) - they will think that on balance, it is all for the better that _something_ exists in the universe to experience bliss.
Darwinism is obsolete since the coming of genetics.
The infinity dragon is better than the hedonistic imperative. With the infinity dragon, the happiness ceiling is boosted towards superhappiness and beyond but the normal day mood doesn't go too high unless you want it to. That means that bad days can still be bad days, normal days can still be normal days, and good days are good days. Super good days in a future utopia can be the superhappiness and beyond. Future mood boosters will have less side effects. Modafinil, Parnate, NSI-189, and others like the Vyvanse and Memantine combo are examples. MDMA is in the grey area, but combining it with Memantine can reduce side effects. For pain reduction, there's kratom. In the future, there's laser neurosurgery which is the basement cleaning part 2 version of the infinity dragon. The laser neurosurgery part might be available in the future. Legalize all!
motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qkjdg5/legalization-of-drugs-should-be-part-of-a-transhumanist-agenda
well at least yer aimin high
Technology doesn't bring paradise but technocracy.
Automation and genetic engineering are evil. Future chemicals and future safer drugs and cognitive enhancers are good. The future is better living through chemistry. The infinity dragon will help solve things better and more testable with less side effects.
>Worse, it is suggested that the price of universal happiness will be the sacrifice of the most hallowed shibboleths of our culture: "motherhood", "home", "family", "freedom", even "love".
You lost the game when you called people's most hallowed values "shibboleths". Get the fuck out.
He didn't say *mere* shibboleths.