[extropy-chat] What Human Minds Will Eventually Do

[Acy Stapp]

I think the only successful choice will be to be happy when you are
enhancing your fitness in the future competitive environment. You
would feel pain and suffering when you are doing or having done to you
actions which impair your fitness. Any other choice will be result in
the evolution of other Minds leaving you behind.

On 6/28/06, Russell Wallace <russell.wallace at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/28/06, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at tsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > I would aim for "The Hedonistic Imperative" goal of getting complete
> > rid of suffering.
>
>
>  So you'd adjust yourself to never feel pain, boredom or any other form of
> suffering in any situation? Okay. Would you adjust yourself to be equally
> happy in all situations?
>
>  If so, how would you solve the problem that you would then have no motive
> to do anything more complicated than sitting there staring at the wall?
>
>  If not, then presumably you would adjust yourself to be happier doing some
> things than others. In which case my original question stands: What things
> would you adjust yourself to be happiest doing, and why?
>
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Acy Stapp

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think
only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the
solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." -- R. Buckminster
Fuller (1895 - 1983)