Yes, many people intuitively feel that a universe of pleasure and a universe of pain add to a net negative. But I suspect that’s just a result of experiencing (and avoiding) lots of sources of extreme pain in our lives, while sources of pleasure tend to be diffuse and relatively rare. The human experience of pleasure is conjunctive because in order to survive and reproduce you must fairly reliably avoid all types of extreme pain. But in a pleasure-maximizing environment, removing pain will be a given.
It’s also true that our brains tend to adapt to pleasure over time, but that seems simple to modify once physiological constraints are removed.
Yes, many people intuitively feel that a universe of pleasure and a universe of pain add to a net negative. But I suspect that’s just a result of experiencing (and avoiding) lots of sources of extreme pain in our lives, while sources of pleasure tend to be diffuse and relatively rare. The human experience of pleasure is conjunctive because in order to survive and reproduce you must fairly reliably avoid all types of extreme pain. But in a pleasure-maximizing environment, removing pain will be a given.
It’s also true that our brains tend to adapt to pleasure over time, but that seems simple to modify once physiological constraints are removed.