anyone seen this - Will AI seduce us ? Thought provoking stuff.
Imagine having an AI girlfriend/boyfriend.
Imagine having an AI girlfriend/boyfriend.
I believe the expression is “Everything in moderation, even moderation.”
Nah, it's “Everything in moderation, even ‘Everything in moderation, even “Everything in moderation, even ‘Everything in moderation … ’”’”Nah, it’s “too much is never enough.”
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Ian
Nah, it's “Everything in moderation, even ‘Everything in moderation, even “Everything in moderation, even ‘Everything in moderation … ’”’”
Imagine having an AI girlfriend/boyfriend.
Eliminating pleasant things from daily life is something I do.
In srs, I have wondered often about how to escaping the trap of short-term gratification, also known as the hedonic treadmill.
I think it takes discipline, focus, and strategy. An example of a losing strategy would be to quit cold turkey, or to try to eliminate too many pleasure streams all at once.
To me, this is just evidence that you are well adapted and/or haven't fallen prey to the hedonic treadmill. When I'm in good mental health, I enjoy those kinds of simple things, but when I am doing poorly, I seem to require more "extreme" stimulus, e.g. porn, in order to feel a bit of satisfaction, and the satisfaction is transient and empty. So what I meant by "ramp down" your indulgences—and I think you did understand me correctly here, but to say it in different words—is to really "ramp toward" these kinds of pleasures that are always available to me, like the beauty of nature and silence, rather than the external things like dessert.when I read on the train in the morning and then in the afternoon, that is absolutely a pleasure. I feel antsy and irritable when I don't get to do that. Or when I buy a bagel for my walk to work. Getting to see clouds. Stuff that is perhaps mundane and not in the hedonic vein, but which still feels like physical experiences I have to have in order to feel satisfied with the day.