Yet the horror is that it’s what you might catch yourself worshiping down the line, forgetting to enjoy any of it. Just take a look at the miserable and aimless workaholics out there, if they can still handle whatever it is they’re doing, their boss will happily exploit them. Do you think your brain would care more about you if you set “efficiency” as its watchword?
Yup, if we set out to build a system that maximized our ability to enjoy life, and we ended up with a system in which we didn’t enjoy life, that would be a failure.
If we set out to build a system with some other goal, or with no particular goal in mind at all, and we ended up with a system in which we didn’t enjoy life, that’s more complicated… but at the very least, it’s not an ideal win condition. (It also describes the real world pretty accurately.)
I’m curious: do you have a vision of a win condition that you would endorse?
Yet the horror is that it’s what you might catch yourself worshiping down the line, forgetting to enjoy any of it. Just take a look at the miserable and aimless workaholics out there, if they can still handle whatever it is they’re doing, their boss will happily exploit them. Do you think your brain would care more about you if you set “efficiency” as its watchword?
Yup, if we set out to build a system that maximized our ability to enjoy life, and we ended up with a system in which we didn’t enjoy life, that would be a failure.
If we set out to build a system with some other goal, or with no particular goal in mind at all, and we ended up with a system in which we didn’t enjoy life, that’s more complicated… but at the very least, it’s not an ideal win condition. (It also describes the real world pretty accurately.)
I’m curious: do you have a vision of a win condition that you would endorse?
See more in my latest post; I’ll be adding to it.
http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/9g0/placeholder_against_dystopia_rally_before_kant/