a general, independent-from-you side that you were pointing at.
Not independent from arbitrary subjective preferences. Although there are certain trends and associations one can observe in the preferences of others. One could reasonably imagine something of a spectrum on how 'core' people consider certain traits to their identity, ranging from positive social connections on one side down to digestive details on the other. You present rather a lot from lower down on that spectrum. Things that many would not consider the lack of to constitute a dystopia.
Forgive me if I appear dense to you, because I'm more and more confused. You write about subjective preferences and then about a continuum with positive social connection on one side and digestive detail to the other. May I ask you of what parameter this is a continuum of? Maybe the "what would you loose first if you were forced to?"-asked-to-core-people parameter?
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!