Manon_de_Gaillande comments on The Super Happy People (3/8) - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 01 February 2009 08:18AM

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Comment author: Manon_de_Gaillande 01 February 2009 11:16:40AM 13 points [-]

Wait. Aren't they *right*? I don't like that they don't terminally value sympathy (though they're pretty close), but that's beside the point. Why keep the children suffering? If there is a good reason - that humans need a painful childhood to explore, learn and develop properly, for example - shouldn't the Super Happy be conviced by that? They value other things than a big orgasm - they grow and learn - they even tried to forsake some happiness for more accurate beliefs - if, despite this, they end up preferring stupid happy superbabies to painful growth, it's likely we agree. I don't want to just tile the galaxy with happiness counters - but if collapsing into orgasmium means the Supper Happy, sign me up.