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The one that brought him the most pleasure and excitement was his family, he doesn't hesitate to say. If we take him at his word, you could optimize for pleasur

The one that brought him the most pleasure and excitement was his family, he doesn't hesitate to say. If we take him at his word, you could optimize for pleasure and excitement by starting a family and skipping all that other stuff.

king_phil 8y ago
I thought the same, while reading the article I was like "I don't want to do this, I want to be with my (baby) daughter!"
- rdiddly 8y ago
  Keep in mind, he might just be saying what he thinks the public (and/or his wife!) wants to hear, but I tend to agree with you. I don't even leave the house unless I get reeeeally restless (which is rare now that I'm a computer nerd), or run out of supplies, or have to go to that pesky "job" thing I seem to have gotten myself involved with.
retsibsi 8y ago
That doesn't follow, even if he meant what he said entirely literally.[1] An analogy: many recipes have one or two ingredients that contribute most of the flavour -- but you can't optimize a chocolate cake for tastiness by forgetting about the cake and guzzling a bowlful of cocoa and sugar. More concretely, balance is very important in most people's lives. And even if family life isn't the kind of thing that necessarily 'wears thin' the way some activities do, who's to say he would have been the same kind of father or husband without all those other sides of his life? Maybe his adventurous spirit is part of what attracted his wife to him, and maybe he would have found it harder to be a good father if he hadn't also been fulfilled in other ways. [1] I don't think the only alternatives are 'literally true' or 'crowd-pleasing bullshit'. He may have meant it sincerely but not quite literally, i.e. he may genuinely value his family above all else, and see them as the greatest contributor to his enjoyment of life, even if they aren't literally more exciting than jumping out of an aeroplane.

king_phil 8y ago

I thought the same, while reading the article I was like "I don't want to do this, I want to be with my (baby) daughter!"

rdiddly 8y ago
Keep in mind, he might just be saying what he thinks the public (and/or his wife!) wants to hear, but I tend to agree with you. I don't even leave the house unless I get reeeeally restless (which is rare now that I'm a computer nerd), or run out of supplies, or have to go to that pesky "job" thing I seem to have gotten myself involved with.

retsibsi 8y ago

That doesn't follow, even if he meant what he said entirely literally.[1] An analogy: many recipes have one or two ingredients that contribute most of the flavour -- but you can't optimize a chocolate cake for tastiness by forgetting about the cake and guzzling a bowlful of cocoa and sugar. More concretely, balance is very important in most people's lives. And even if family life isn't the kind of thing that necessarily 'wears thin' the way some activities do, who's to say he would have been the same kind of father or husband without all those other sides of his life? Maybe his adventurous spirit is part of what attracted his wife to him, and maybe he would have found it harder to be a good father if he hadn't also been fulfilled in other ways. [1] I don't think the only alternatives are 'literally true' or 'crowd-pleasing bullshit'. He may have meant it sincerely but not quite literally, i.e. he may genuinely value his family above all else, and see them as the greatest contributor to his enjoyment of life, even if they aren't literally more exciting than jumping out of an aeroplane.