The original context was Oscar saying that the sorting hat will make people happy. I commented that maybe happiness isn’t the right goal—not a very helpful comment, frankly; Oscar’s comment was a fine contribution, whereas mine is tangential, nit-picking, and sounds like a criticism.
If being happy were your only goal, you might very well say, “Make me a Gamma!” “We don’t want to self modify to be super-happies” implies that being happy is not our only goal, which is the point I was (pedantically) making. So I think you’re agreeing with me more than you’re disagreeing with me. You’re bringing in more subtleties to the issue.
The original context was Oscar saying that the sorting hat will make people happy. I commented that maybe happiness isn’t the right goal—not a very helpful comment, frankly; Oscar’s comment was a fine contribution, whereas mine is tangential, nit-picking, and sounds like a criticism.
If being happy were your only goal, you might very well say, “Make me a Gamma!” “We don’t want to self modify to be super-happies” implies that being happy is not our only goal, which is the point I was (pedantically) making. So I think you’re agreeing with me more than you’re disagreeing with me. You’re bringing in more subtleties to the issue.