lessdazed comments on Polyhacking - Less Wrong

75 Post author: Alicorn 28 August 2011 08:35AM

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Comment author: lessdazed 28 August 2011 10:23:44PM 2 points [-]

I would go further and say neither is something you are or aren't and one can't voluntarily "switch" because it's not binary.

What you're happy doing is a matter of the people around you, the environment you are in, and the person you are.

I think for most people it would be possible to plunk them into non-supernatural, not too different from present scenarios and have them be happy either way or unhappy either way.

Comment author: [deleted] 28 August 2011 10:38:14PM 0 points [-]

Again, to be clear -- I'm just describing a perception. My own belief is rather like what you outline here -- that context defines much of the basis for even asking the question, let alone the spectrum of behaviours you'll find in humans living in that context.