But I would trade it for a different, more intense, more complex pleasure.
Which is my thesis: outside of denying change, the only two dimension under which is significant to find an improvement are intensity and complexity. However your position appears to me not to be reflectively consistent: after all, you could consider the complexity and intensity of your whole human experience and be seduced by a different, more complex, more intense type of existence.
As I parse it, yes! It'd have to be done by gradual change (I don't want to die and be replaced by someone cooler), but yeah, that's what I want. Where am I inconsistent?
This post is a formal request for everybody in this forum, who are the most likely humans to produce an FAI in the future, that in the possible resulting utopia some activity will still be available, even if they are not based on challenges of increasing complexity. I call these activity natural wireheadings, and since it is my right to determine my own fun-generating activities, I hereby formally request that some simple pleasure, listened below, will still be available at *any* point in my future cone, and that I will consider a dystopia any future which deprives me of these natural wireheadings (if anyone is still around caring for those things).
A (non-exhaustive) list of them includes the following:
- sex
- eating food/drinking
- feeling relieved for having emptied my bowels
- dancing
- the pleasure of physical activity (wood-carving, sculpting, running, etc)
- the rapture I feel when in the presence of a safe ancestral environment
- social laughter
- the pleasure of talking in a small, same-minded crowd
- listening to pop/metal/rap music
- the pleasure of resting when tired
- scratching an itch
-...
More will come!