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

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Comment author: Ian_Maxwell 04 February 2009 07:02:23PM 5 points [-]

Has anyone else noticed that in this particular 'compromise', the superhappies don't seem to be actually sacrificing anything?

I mean, their highest values are being ultra super happy and having sex all the time, and they still get to do that. It's not as if they wanted not to create literature or eat hundreds of pseudochildren. Whereas humans will no longer get to feel frustrated or exhausted, and babyeaters will no longer get to eat real children.

I don't think the superhappies are quite as fair-minded as Akon thought. They agreed to take on traits of humanity and babyeating in an attempt to placate everyone, not because it was a fair trade.