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exit on April 16, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: 100 years ago, people paid money to see a fat man ...

if we can manipulate neurological details like gender, why not lock ourselves into a happy-loop and be done with history?

MikeCapone on April 16, 2010 | [–]

A wirehead future is possible (and scary to me).

We can do better, though. Check out Yudkowsky's Fun Theory sequence for more on this:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/xy/the_fun_theory_sequence/

jafl5272 on April 16, 2010 | [–]

http://www.kuro5hin.org/prime-intellect/

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