/lit/ - Literature

>>22895654
The problem with Brave New World is that it only focused on generating pleasure within human minds via external stimulus, rather than constructing minds specifically engineered for pleasure throughout as much of the universe as possible, which would swamp the pleasure among mere human existence with its sheer magnitude. Something like pic related is unironically the end goal any technological civilization should strive towards. Such a universe might be depressing or boring to contemplate, but it would be objectively good to exist within.

>>22798374
Here's another comic with a similar theme

Assuming panpsychism is true (which seems likely as the only realistic solution to the hard problem of consciousness) and happiness is the only desirable end (which it is, because all other ends are judged by how happy they make us, even deliberate aesceticism is done for its own unique joy), then something like pic related is unironically the end all advanced civilizations should strive for. You cannot refute this, the ultimate end should be finding the physical form correlating to happiness and replicating it as much as possible. Just because it's depressing to think about as a universe with no "adventure" doesn't mean it would be depressing to actually inhabit, and in fact this is just further proof that we judge things by happiness as an ultimate end (adventure makes us happy so we value it, and are merely mistaken in valuing the aventure itself rather than the happiness it brings about).