Friendly-HI comments on Not for the Sake of Pleasure Alone - Less Wrong

36 Post author: lukeprog 11 June 2011 11:21PM

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Comment author: Friendly-HI 12 June 2011 06:45:42PM *  12 points [-]

I got an experience machine in the basement that supplies you with loads and loads of that marvelously distinct feeling of "the process of painting the picture" and "seeing how your decisions and plans are getting implemented in a semi-physical world around you". Your actions will have a perfectly accurate impact on your surroundings and you will have loads of that feeling of control and importance that you presumably believe is so important for your happiness.

Now what?