Hedonic Skew

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

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Claims (1)

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Human psychology has evolved to generate pleasure and pain where this motivated reproductive fitness, not to maximize well-being, entailing hard-to-avoid suffering and sparingly doled pleasures
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Grounds the claim that digital minds can be engineered to have much better hedonic balance than humans

Concepts (2)

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Hedonic Engineering
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The prospect of designing minds to run on sustained positive hedonic states rather than evolved pain-pleasure balance
Hedonistic Account of Well-Being
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The view that well-being consists in pleasure and absence of pain, under which digital hedonic skew and range matter greatly

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