ScroogeMcDuck comments on Do Humans Want Things? - Less Wrong

23 Post author: lukeprog 04 August 2011 05:00AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 04 August 2011 08:36:57PM 9 points [-]

Personally, I'd be pretty happy with an FAI that just let me appreciate what I already have more effectively. I know that I'm living in an awesome science fiction world relative to how things were in the 60s, not to mention how things were in the 1600s, but even though I remind myself of this on a regular basis I'm still not as ecstatically happy as I think I ought to be.

This morning I accidentally locked myself out of my bedroom after getting up in the middle of the night to go to the restroom. I waited several hours, trying to get some sleep on the carpet, before the manager for the apartment complex I live in came and unlocked my door for me. Lying down in my bed again, I realized more than I ever have in my life how awesome beds are, and this realization caused me to giggle with delight.

Comment author: orthonormal 07 August 2011 07:44:19PM 9 points [-]

I thought you preferred sleeping on piles of coins?

Comment author: taryneast 08 August 2011 09:26:29PM 1 point [-]

Being part of medieval recreation society helps with that. Apart from the fun of dressing up and fighting other people with swords for a few days on camp... you then get to go home to antibiotics, clean water and washing machines. :)