wedrifid comments on A call for solutions and a tease of mine - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 16 January 2012 06:06:00AM 11 points [-]

A board of twelve people is in charge of deciding which grant proposals to accept. Their foundation's stated goal is to maximize the average number of hedons among the human race.

So they need to work out wtf a hedon is, put as many as possible in one person then kill all other humans?

Comment author: Friendly-HI 16 January 2012 10:21:43AM 5 points [-]

Great idea, I'm sold. I heroically sacrifice myself to be the hedon-recipient.

Comment author: wedrifid 16 January 2012 10:30:01AM 4 points [-]

You had best phrase your offer in a way that will appeal to whoever is trying to maximize average hedons. This, of course, means showing why they can put hedons into you more efficiently than they can anyone else. The maximisation process will involve killing nearly your entire species, leaving you alone. This being the case the selected candidate will be one who takes sadistic delight in the death of others, currently has no meaningful bonds with his or her fellow humans and above all has absolutely no standards regarding what will give them hedonistic pleasure.

Comment author: beoShaffer 16 January 2012 03:35:27PM 1 point [-]

So volunteering to be involved in such a horrible plan is actually a pretty good start.

Comment author: Ben_Welchner 16 January 2012 06:43:43AM *  0 points [-]

That's one hell of a grant proposal/foundation.

Comment author: Dorikka 16 January 2012 09:15:07AM 0 points [-]

That's one hell of a goal.