Caroline continued. "So they learn where the pleasure points are by hook or
crook, then stimulate themselves directly. And when they get it right, they
never do anything else. They get everything maximized, tuned up, and they just
sit there forever enjoying it."
"Right. Now is a creature that is doing that, not interacting with the world
at all any more, human?"
Caroline thought about it. "No."
"Prime Intellect thinks otherwise. But it has its doubts."
Without God/Prime Intellect to keep these people blissfully alive, though, natural selection will quickly check this kind of progression.
Once you short circuit your pleasure systems - which evolved to keep you alive and reproducing - you'll soon be displaced by a species with better self control.
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Without God/Prime Intellect to keep these people blissfully alive, though, natural selection will quickly check this kind of progression.
Once you short circuit your pleasure systems - which evolved to keep you alive and reproducing - you'll soon be displaced by a species with better self control.
Reminds me of http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Orgasmium.