In other words, the only things that determine how well your life goes are your mental states—the ones that feel good are good for you, ones that feel bad are bad for you.
I predict from this that you would wirehead and urge wireheading for everyone else, given the possibility, and you would choose the Matrix over the real world. Is my prediction correct?
I judge wireheading to be a step short of suicide, simulations to be no more than places that may be worth visiting on occasion, and most talk of “happiness” to be a category error.
And the more zeros in an argument, the less seriously I am inclined to take it.
I predict from this that you would wirehead and urge wireheading for everyone else, given the possibility, and you would choose the Matrix over the real world. Is my prediction correct?
Yep
For some reason the words “flagrantly, confidently, and egregiously wrong” come to mind.
Good one!
Though is there a reason?
Let’s say, fundamental differences in worldview.
I judge wireheading to be a step short of suicide, simulations to be no more than places that may be worth visiting on occasion, and most talk of “happiness” to be a category error.
And the more zeros in an argument, the less seriously I am inclined to take it.