Serves her right for making self-improvement a foremost terminal value even when she knows that’s going to be rendered irrelevant, meanwhile the loop I’m stuck in is of the first six hours spent in my catgirl volcano lair.
By believing it’s important enough that when you come up with a system of values, you label it a terminal one. You might find that you come up with those just by analysing the values you already have and identifying some as terminal goals, but “She had long been a believer in self-perfection and self-improvement” sounds like something one decides to care about.
Self-improvement wasn’t her terminal value, that was only derived from her utilitarianism, she liked to improve herself and see new vistas because it allowed her to be more efficient in carrying out her goals.
I could have had her spend some time exploring her hedonistic side before looking at what she was becoming (orgasmium) and not liking it from her previous perspective.But the ASI decided that this would scar her mentally and that the two jump as dreams was the best way to get her out of the situation (or I didn’t want to have to try to write highly optimised bliss, one of the two).
That’s the reason she liked those things in the past, but “acheiving her goals” is redundant, she should have known years in advance about that, so it’s clear that she’s grown so attached to self-improvement that she sees it as an end in itself. Why else would anyone ever, upon deciding to look inside themselves instead of at expected utility, replace thoughts of paragliding in Jupiter with thoughts of piano lessons?
Hedonism isn’t bad, orgasmium is bad because it reduces the complexity of fun to maximising a single number.
I don’t want to be upgraded into a “capable agent” and then cast back into the wilderness from whence I came, I’d settle for a one-room apartment with food and internet before that, which as a NEET I can tell you is a long way down from Reedspacer’s Lower Bound.
Serves her right for making self-improvement a foremost terminal value even when she knows that’s going to be rendered irrelevant, meanwhile the loop I’m stuck in is of the first six hours spent in my catgirl volcano lair.
Is it possible to make something a terminal value? If so, how?
By believing it’s important enough that when you come up with a system of values, you label it a terminal one. You might find that you come up with those just by analysing the values you already have and identifying some as terminal goals, but “She had long been a believer in self-perfection and self-improvement” sounds like something one decides to care about.
Self-improvement wasn’t her terminal value, that was only derived from her utilitarianism, she liked to improve herself and see new vistas because it allowed her to be more efficient in carrying out her goals.
I could have had her spend some time exploring her hedonistic side before looking at what she was becoming (orgasmium) and not liking it from her previous perspective.But the ASI decided that this would scar her mentally and that the two jump as dreams was the best way to get her out of the situation (or I didn’t want to have to try to write highly optimised bliss, one of the two).
That’s the reason she liked those things in the past, but “acheiving her goals” is redundant, she should have known years in advance about that, so it’s clear that she’s grown so attached to self-improvement that she sees it as an end in itself. Why else would anyone ever, upon deciding to look inside themselves instead of at expected utility, replace thoughts of paragliding in Jupiter with thoughts of piano lessons?
Hedonism isn’t bad, orgasmium is bad because it reduces the complexity of fun to maximising a single number.
I don’t want to be upgraded into a “capable agent” and then cast back into the wilderness from whence I came, I’d settle for a one-room apartment with food and internet before that, which as a NEET I can tell you is a long way down from Reedspacer’s Lower Bound.