Oh, I’m starting to see why the Superhappies are not so right after all, what they lack, why they are alien, in the Normal Ending and in Eliezer’s comments. I think this should have been explained in more detail in the story, because I initially failed to see their offer as anything but good, let alone bad enough to kill yourself. I want untranslatable 2!
Still, if I had been able to decide on behalf of humanity, I would have tried to make a deal—not outright accepted their offer, but negotiated to keep more of what matters to us, maybe by adopting more of their emotions, or asking lesser modifications of them. It just doesn’t look that irreconciliable.
Also, their offer to have the Babyeaters eat nonsentient children sounds stupid—like replacing out friends and lovers with catgirls.
Oh, I’m starting to see why the Superhappies are not so right after all, what they lack, why they are alien, in the Normal Ending and in Eliezer’s comments. I think this should have been explained in more detail in the story, because I initially failed to see their offer as anything but good, let alone bad enough to kill yourself. I want untranslatable 2!
Still, if I had been able to decide on behalf of humanity, I would have tried to make a deal—not outright accepted their offer, but negotiated to keep more of what matters to us, maybe by adopting more of their emotions, or asking lesser modifications of them. It just doesn’t look that irreconciliable.
Also, their offer to have the Babyeaters eat nonsentient children sounds stupid—like replacing out friends and lovers with catgirls.