PrometheanFaun comments on Normal Ending: Last Tears (6/8) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PrometheanFaun 25 May 2013 03:05:53AM *  0 points [-]

No. I personally exhibit a viable human idiogenetic strain which places no value on comfort or pleasure as end-goals - a living counterexample. I try to adhere to the essence of the dictum of life as closely as possible; survive and explore. I'd expect that to be a more enduring invariant shared by distinct lineages than a fear of pain.

Though if humanity were a species for which our agents truly couldn't resist merging thoughts in every moment- and we very nearly are- I wouldn't exist. But that still only speaks of humanity.