I think there’s some lack of clarity in this thread about what it means to “retire”. There are two interpretations (see e.g. this post):
(1) Retire means financial independence, not having to work for a living, so that you can focus your energy on what you want to do instead of what you have to do.
(2) Retire means a carefree life of leisure where you maximize your hedonics by doing easy and pleasant things and not doing hard and stressful things.
I think these two ways of retiring are quite different and lead to different consequences.
Technically, yes, though people mostly use (1) to mean doing something purposeful, an activity after which you can point and say “I made that”, while (2) is essentially trying to get as close to wireheading as you currently can :-)
They aren’t totally unrelated because easy and pleasant things are less likely to earn you a living than hard and stressful things for obvious supply reasons (unless you’re unusual compared to the rest of the labour market with respect to which kinds of things are easy and pleasant to you).
I think there’s some lack of clarity in this thread about what it means to “retire”. There are two interpretations (see e.g. this post):
(1) Retire means financial independence, not having to work for a living, so that you can focus your energy on what you want to do instead of what you have to do.
(2) Retire means a carefree life of leisure where you maximize your hedonics by doing easy and pleasant things and not doing hard and stressful things.
I think these two ways of retiring are quite different and lead to different consequences.
I meant to imply the former, albeit with the possibility “what you want to do” is not restricted from including leisure/hedonics/pleasure.
Technically, yes, though people mostly use (1) to mean doing something purposeful, an activity after which you can point and say “I made that”, while (2) is essentially trying to get as close to wireheading as you currently can :-)
Fair enough :)
They aren’t totally unrelated because easy and pleasant things are less likely to earn you a living than hard and stressful things for obvious supply reasons (unless you’re unusual compared to the rest of the labour market with respect to which kinds of things are easy and pleasant to you).