The only reason we need happiness or pleasure is so that we are motivated to seek out things that would help us or things that matter to us.
That may be the only reason we evolved happiness or pleasure, but we don't have to care about what evolution optimized for, when designing a utopia. We're allowed to value happiness for its own sake. See Adaptation-Executers, not Fitness-Maximizers.
If we reached all possible goals, and ran out of possible goals to strive for, what do we do then?
Worthwhile goals are finite, so it's true we might run out of goals ...
EY, I'm not sure I'm with you about needing to get smarter to integrate all new experiences. If we want to stay and slay every monster, couldn't we instead allow ourselves to forget some experiences, and to not learn at maximum capacity?
It does seem wrong to willfully not learn, but maybe as a compromise, I could learn all that my ordinary brain allows, then allow that to act as a cap and not augment my intelligence until that level of challenges fully bored me. I could maybe even learn new things while forgetting others to make space.
Or am I merely misund...
I'm curious as to what, more specifically, The Path of Courage looks like.
If broken legs have not been eliminated... Would a person still learn, over time, how to completely avoid breaking a leg - and the difference lies in having to learn it, rather than starting out with unbreakable legs? Or do we remain forever in danger of breaking our legs (which is okay because we'll heal and because the rest of life is less brutal in general)?
If the latter... What happens to "optimizing literally everything"? Will we experience pain and then make a conscio... (read more)