VAuroch comments on The Bedrock of Morality: Arbitrary? - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 August 2008 10:00PM

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Comment author: Hopefully_Anonymous 14 August 2008 10:31:02PM 1 point [-]

I'm fine with a galaxy without humor, music, or art. I'd sacrifice all of that reproductive fitness signalling (or whatever it is) to maximize my persistence odds as a subjective conscious entity, if that "dilemma" was presented to me.

Comment author: VAuroch 27 November 2013 08:38:36AM -1 points [-]

I would not, or at least probably would not. For sufficiently drastic survival ratio, I might. I would not, because humor and art are tied far too directly into the sense of fun; an excellent game is art just as much as Guernica, Citizen Kane, or a Beethoven symphony, and losing that entire section of the aesthetic sense would spoil too many fun things.

Of course, whatever senses replaced our senses of art/humor might bring other, equal fun with them. In which case I'd be more inclined to accept the deal.