I’ve never lucid dreamt, but it seems utterly amazing. If you could do almost anything you could imagine, wouldn’t you prefer that to real life? Does anyone find themselves, or know of anyone who can lucid dream and wants to spend their time lucid dreaming instead of being awake?
Does anyone find themselves, or know of anyone who can lucid dream and wants to spend their time lucid dreaming instead of being awake?
I do actually know someone who claims to want this, but revealed preferences indicate that they actually don’t.
My stance is that while lucid dreaming may be amazing and in some respects preferable to real life, really truly optimizing for maximum lucid dream time is pretty darn close to wireheading. That said, if you’re into wireheading, lucid dreaming might be a pretty effective way to do so?
I have limited interest in that area so am less than completely fluent in the relevant arguments.
I would normally interpret “I prefer (unusual thing) to (common, necessary, thing)” to mean that his preferences for the latter change over time (usually by increasing when he’s not had it) and that he prefers the former to the latter at one particular moment when he would otherwise prefer the latter..
For instance, someone who says he prefers video games to sleep doesn’t mean that he would rather suffer all the consequences of having no sleep for a month, as long as he plays video games. Rather, he means that at some moment when he would otherwise prefer sleep to other things, he would prefer video games to sleep. As time passes and his need for sleep increases, he may still eventually prefer sleep.
I’ve never lucid dreamt, but it seems utterly amazing. If you could do almost anything you could imagine, wouldn’t you prefer that to real life? Does anyone find themselves, or know of anyone who can lucid dream and wants to spend their time lucid dreaming instead of being awake?
I do actually know someone who claims to want this, but revealed preferences indicate that they actually don’t.
My stance is that while lucid dreaming may be amazing and in some respects preferable to real life, really truly optimizing for maximum lucid dream time is pretty darn close to wireheading. That said, if you’re into wireheading, lucid dreaming might be a pretty effective way to do so?
I have limited interest in that area so am less than completely fluent in the relevant arguments.
I would normally interpret “I prefer (unusual thing) to (common, necessary, thing)” to mean that his preferences for the latter change over time (usually by increasing when he’s not had it) and that he prefers the former to the latter at one particular moment when he would otherwise prefer the latter..
For instance, someone who says he prefers video games to sleep doesn’t mean that he would rather suffer all the consequences of having no sleep for a month, as long as he plays video games. Rather, he means that at some moment when he would otherwise prefer sleep to other things, he would prefer video games to sleep. As time passes and his need for sleep increases, he may still eventually prefer sleep.