This doesn’t pass the smell test if you think about it for two minutes. Well-adjusted people with decently varied lives easily have the means to pleasure-button

This doesn’t pass the smell test if you think about it for two minutes. Well-adjusted people with decently varied lives easily have the means to pleasure-button themselves to death. But they don’t. And not because they continually will-power themselves out of every such situation. Simply because maximum pleasure stimuli is not that interesting. > We humans aren't as special as we thought, even when compared to flies. The fact that you jumped to this conclusion instead of considering how actual people in the real world work rather suggests that you are the one who has some kind of motivated reasoning (in the opposite direction).