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Relevant discussion: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6qS9q5zHafFXsB6hf/serious-stories?commentId=ZRzd6TMzQTYZYDZBZ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6qS9q5zHafFXs

• zdragnar 5y ago
  > running across the hot desert sand in order to reach water would actually feel good And so people would seek it out. We already seek out every other form of pleasure- both positive (intimacy) and maladaptive (drugs). If anything, this sounds like attempting to over-fit for fitness.
  • thewakalix 5y ago
    They would deliberately set themselves up to need to run across hot sand to reach water? Why? (I understand why a standard human might do that, but how would stranding oneself in a desert be adaptive? And if it isn’t adaptive, why would a hypothetical “harmonized human” do it?)
    • zdragnar 5y ago
      Parkour, skydiving, downhill skiing, motorcycling, drag racing, autoerotic asphyxiation, Russian roulette. Out of all the things known to nature, humans find the most incredible ways to entertain and please themselves to death. If you remove the element of pain and replace it with pleasure, people will find new and exciting ways to chase that pleasure too. Run into unsafe neighborhoods at night and feel the joy of running back home. Roll around in broken glass and let the euphoria of stitching yourself back together set in. > And if it isn’t adaptive, why would a hypothetical “harmonized human” do it?) They'll do whatever you want them to do, because they are neither real nor human.