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What is best in life?
Flow. Love is pretty good too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28psychology%29 seconded
Infinite holodeck time.
"The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters."
The man who said that is suspected of being an ancestor of about 8% of all living Asians so you probably should listen to him :-P
Patrilineal ancestor, not just ancestor. When talking about someone who lived 40 generations ago, there's a huge difference.
Yeah, but what does Genghis Khan's dad say? He is, remarkably, suspected of being a direct ancestor of even more living Asians than Genghis!
He says not to eat food offered by Tatars.
Traditional Tatar cuisine actually resembles current 'Western cuisine' in some things, like frying dough in large amounts of fat. (Chack-chack in particular, soaked in honey and studded with walnuts, can be eaten as a finger food and as a cake.) As to the horse flesh, well, tastes differ.
Conan: Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women.
Look at how people who are rich, attractive, healthy, and smart spend their free time.
Time to buy a yacht and convince some supermodels to hang out on it with me!
I will hang out if you have wifi.
Are you a supermodel?
no... I swear it didn't say supermodel there when I commented. I suppose I can make supermodelling a goal of mine...
Something as close as possible to living in the wild with a small band of kin and allies.*
*Answer only valid if a posthuman overmind is ensuring the continuing safety and prosperity of the band, providing novel but conquerable challenges, and ensuring sufficient foraging materials such that the band has ample leisure time to engage in artistic and social recreation.
I'd rather be the posthuman mind, raising the wild creatures up to civilisation.
Taboo "best". What are you trying to optimize for?
Wireheading seems like a perfectly reasonable answer to me.
That entirely depends on your utility function / preferences; one could make general statements based on certain preferences that the vast majority of humans share in common, but that's not specific to you, nor does it say anything about non-human preferences. I suppose one could find certain irresistible trends in agent preferences that are constrained by game theory, but those would be completely generic goals like "get more resources", and probably wouldn't satisfy the complex psychology of a human.