(June 8, 2016 at 4:15 am)RozKek Wrote: I'll make it short.
Would you:
1) Live in a vr and be able to do whatever you want but you can't leave or
2) Be hooked up to a machine stimulating your brain so you experience the maximum happines you can experience throughout your whole life. But! In this machine you can't do anything at all, you're just hooked up to it but you're happier than you can ever be. You can't leave this one either.[...]
I'll make it shorter.
Would you rather:
1) be on LSD for the rest of your life, or
2) be on heroin for the rest of your life?
However you put it - option 1 is way more attractive, because it makes you a god, whereas option 2 makes you - essentially - a vegetable.
The problem with "maximum happiness" - or indeed any level of sustained happiness - is that one you reach it you quickly become desensitized to it. That's why heroin junkies spend most of their short lives desperately chasing the feeling of that first hit.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
