I have no need to hack myself poly, but I’m curious about what separates this kind of preference hacking from the kinds we tend to treat as taboo here.
You obviously wouldn’t want to hack yourself to change your terminal preferences (Gandhi and the murder pill), but hacking yourself to change your behavior to help you maximize terminal preferences is fine.(Gandhi taking a pill that would allow him to go without sleep indefinitely, freeing up 6+ hours a day for peaceful protesting). Hacking other people is usually bad. I can’t think of an example of self-hacking to change behaviors being treated as taboo, but I’d be interested if you can think of one.
Hacking oneself to be polyamorous seems itself like preference rather than behavior hacking, which is why I’m confused. I would have to change what I want out of relationships to become uncomfortable with being in romantic relationships containing more than two people (my case is a bit more complicated than that, there are different types of polyamory, but the specifics aren’t relevant to the main point.) Similarly, I find it doubtful that a person hard wired for monogamy (and some people seem to be intensely monogamous by nature,) could be hacked into polyamory without altering their values with regards to relationships.
I have no need to hack myself poly, but I’m curious about what separates this kind of preference hacking from the kinds we tend to treat as taboo here.
You obviously wouldn’t want to hack yourself to change your terminal preferences (Gandhi and the murder pill), but hacking yourself to change your behavior to help you maximize terminal preferences is fine.(Gandhi taking a pill that would allow him to go without sleep indefinitely, freeing up 6+ hours a day for peaceful protesting). Hacking other people is usually bad.
I can’t think of an example of self-hacking to change behaviors being treated as taboo, but I’d be interested if you can think of one.
Hacking oneself to be polyamorous seems itself like preference rather than behavior hacking, which is why I’m confused. I would have to change what I want out of relationships to become uncomfortable with being in romantic relationships containing more than two people (my case is a bit more complicated than that, there are different types of polyamory, but the specifics aren’t relevant to the main point.) Similarly, I find it doubtful that a person hard wired for monogamy (and some people seem to be intensely monogamous by nature,) could be hacked into polyamory without altering their values with regards to relationships.