This strikes me as a strange choice of words since e.g. I think it is good to occasionally experience sadness. But arguing over words is not very fruitful.
I’m not sure this interpretation is consistent with “filling the universe with tiny beings whose minds are specifically geared toward feeling as much pure happiness as possible.”
First, “pure happiness” sounds like a raw pleasure signal rather than “things conscious beings experience that are good” but ok, maybe it’s just about wording.
Second, “specifically geared” sounds like wireheading. That is, it sounds like these beings would be happy even if they witnessed the holocaust which again contradicts my understanding of “things conscious beings experience that are good.” However I guess it’s possible to read it charitably (from my perspective) as minds that have superior ability to have truly valuable experiences i.e. some kind of post-humans.
Third, “tiny beings” sounds like some kind of primitive minds rather than superhuman minds as I would expect. But maybe you actually mean physical size in which case I might agree: it seems much more efficient to do something like running lots of post-humans on computronium than allocating for each the material resources of a modern biological human (although at the moment I have no idea what volume of computronium is optimal for running a single post-human: on the one hand, running a modern-like human is probably possible in a very small volume, on the other hand a post-human might be much more computationally expensive).
So, for a sufficiently charitable (from my perspective) reading I agree, but I’m not sure to which extent this reading is aligned with your actual intentions.
This strikes me as a strange choice of words since e.g. I think it is good to occasionally experience sadness. But arguing over words is not very fruitful.
I’m not sure this interpretation is consistent with “filling the universe with tiny beings whose minds are specifically geared toward feeling as much pure happiness as possible.”
First, “pure happiness” sounds like a raw pleasure signal rather than “things conscious beings experience that are good” but ok, maybe it’s just about wording.
Second, “specifically geared” sounds like wireheading. That is, it sounds like these beings would be happy even if they witnessed the holocaust which again contradicts my understanding of “things conscious beings experience that are good.” However I guess it’s possible to read it charitably (from my perspective) as minds that have superior ability to have truly valuable experiences i.e. some kind of post-humans.
Third, “tiny beings” sounds like some kind of primitive minds rather than superhuman minds as I would expect. But maybe you actually mean physical size in which case I might agree: it seems much more efficient to do something like running lots of post-humans on computronium than allocating for each the material resources of a modern biological human (although at the moment I have no idea what volume of computronium is optimal for running a single post-human: on the one hand, running a modern-like human is probably possible in a very small volume, on the other hand a post-human might be much more computationally expensive).
So, for a sufficiently charitable (from my perspective) reading I agree, but I’m not sure to which extent this reading is aligned with your actual intentions.