/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16136853
Cope

>>16050564
>muh authoritarianism
Depressives tend to be more submissive on average than happy people. There are lots of possible blueprints for genetically-driven paradises, and the necessity of a system like that of Brave New World has never been rigorously argued for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsEt7zDxRzY

>>16037351

>>15827856
Why? Your experiences are the result of a bunch of neurons and chemical reactions. Your brain isn't magic.

>>15791139
Here's an online version of it:

https://www.hedweb.com/

>>15782467
>it's unrealizable cope because, uh, IT JUST IS OKAY

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QfJh_kWorBs

>>15725602
Why would the ideas proposed in The Hedonistic Imperative be physically impossible? We know that people like Jo Cameron who feel almost no pain or anxiety exist, so there's no reason why people couldn't be genetically engineered to at least Jo Cameron's level. And Ted's entire argument is basically him being stuck in a local maximum. Sure, it's plausible that people were happier on average than people in modern society, but destroying industrial society would prevent the world David Pearce wants to build from coming to fruition, which would objectively be far better than the primitive world Ted wanted to build.

>>15672561
That makes absolutely no sense. That's like saying that if you have severe depression and anhedonia, you are "experiencing pleasure" whenever you feel less depressed than you usually do.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ChL2HNyxFxo