Hedonic Engineering

The prospect of designing minds to run on sustained positive hedonic states rather than evolved pain-pleasure balance

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David Pearce
introduces
Argued that biological minds could be engineered to run on gradients of bliss rather than current pain-pleasure span

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Hedonic Skew
extends
The possibility of engineering digital minds to have sustainably intense pleasures without the evolved limitations constraining human hedonic experience

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Hedonic Rangeconcept0.818
The speculative possibility of designing digital minds capable of bliss states entirely beyond the range of human brains
Hedonismframework0.807
The theory of welfare that pleasure is the sole welfare good and pain the sole welfare bad.
Hedonistic Account of Well-Beingconcept0.752
The view that well-being consists in pleasure and absence of pain, under which digital hedonic skew and range matter greatly
Heuristic Evaluationmethod0.740
Nielsen and Molich's method for finding UI flaws by applying usability heuristics.
Preference Engineering of Digital Mindsconcept0.724
The ethical question of whether precision-engineering digital mind preferences to support human incumbents is procedurally permissible
Relational Heuristicsframework0.720
Domain Engineeringframework0.712
Approach to building reusable domain models.
Hebbian Plasticityconcept0.685
Associative learning rule; learning of likelihood matrix A is formally identical to Hebbian plasticity.