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- rms 18y ago>Is there enough fun in the universe, sufficiently accessible, for a transhuman to jog off the hedonic treadmill - improve their life continuously, at a sufficient rate to leap to an even higher hedonic level before they had a chance to get bored with the previous one? >Assume that a microgram of additional neurotransmitters are released in the pleasure centers during a standard human orgasm. And assume that neurotransmitters have the same density as water. Then an orgasm can reach around 108 solar masses before it collapses and forms a black hole, corresponding to 1047 baseline orgasms. If we assume that a 100mg dose of crack is as pleasurable as 10 standard orgasms, then the street value of your last orgasm is around a hundred billion trillion trillion trillion dollars.
- daniel-cussen 18y ago>In general, though, it is a rare organism in a rare environment whose reproductively optimal strategy is to rest with a smile on its face, feeling happy. Resting is the optimal strategy for about 8 hours per day. Anyway, I've thought of this happiness treadmill too. My solution is to avoid increasing neurons exponentially; rather, they get reset with nanotech or something.