There's another consequentialist path besides hedonism or preference utilitarianism: assigning substantial value to macroexperiences.
The reason mainlining hedonium isn't the most positive life is the same reason why the best music doesn't consist of the best 10-note melody played over and over. The large-scale temporal organization of pleasures and pains creates positive or negative macroexperiences that aren't simple sums of their parts.
This is great, thanks so much for sharing. I was hoping to attend but I was dealing with health issues all of January and put off the application until the last minute. I didn't realize the application deadline was in the middle of the day, and so I missed it, thinking it was at midnight.
I was considering making a trip to the Bay Area anyway but ultimately decided not to. I hope to attend EA Global London and EA Global Boston in October.
Keep up with the criticisms of Yudkowsky. The dude has a bit of a God complex and a lot of people seem afraid to criticize him too harshly given his lofty status, which is not a healthy aspect of the community. Vigorous criticism is at the foundation of civilizational progress and helps prevent cult-like dynamics in tight-knit social groups.
Values and morality are situated in geography, time, and society, they aren't fixed, and they are almost never shared by the whole community. 'Moral facts' is either a tautology or an oxymoron. I can't decide which, given it's such a peculiar expression.
There's another consequentialist path besides hedonism or preference utilitarianism: assigning substantial value to macroexperiences.
The reason mainlining hedonium isn't the most positive life is the same reason why the best music doesn't consist of the best 10-note melody played over and over. The large-scale temporal organization of pleasures and pains creates positive or negative macroexperiences that aren't simple sums of their parts.
This is great, thanks so much for sharing. I was hoping to attend but I was dealing with health issues all of January and put off the application until the last minute. I didn't realize the application deadline was in the middle of the day, and so I missed it, thinking it was at midnight.
I was considering making a trip to the Bay Area anyway but ultimately decided not to. I hope to attend EA Global London and EA Global Boston in October.
Keep up with the criticisms of Yudkowsky. The dude has a bit of a God complex and a lot of people seem afraid to criticize him too harshly given his lofty status, which is not a healthy aspect of the community. Vigorous criticism is at the foundation of civilizational progress and helps prevent cult-like dynamics in tight-knit social groups.
On heroin rats being happy: https://nida.nih.gov/news-events/nida-notes/2019/08/rats-prefer-social-interaction-to-heroin-or-methamphetamine
Values and morality are situated in geography, time, and society, they aren't fixed, and they are almost never shared by the whole community. 'Moral facts' is either a tautology or an oxymoron. I can't decide which, given it's such a peculiar expression.