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!
Yes, of course. I was specifically refering to the way muflax put it, see my reply to MixedNuts. It's amusing however that you anchored faeces instead of say sex or social laughter :)
I chose the terminal value that I do not share. If I thought 'lack of sex' was a lame thing to declare dystopic then I would have focussed on that. As it happens, though, I like sex a lot more than poo.
I want my future self to share my values. It is the content of some of your declared terminal values in particular and the degree with which you declare them vital which I don't share. In fact sex and social laughter are perhaps the only two items that don't look like they are deliberately selected to be limiting.