Eliezer, I’m reading Bill McKibben’s “Enough” at the moment, and it is interesting to note that he asks some of the same questions that you do. It seems that he has never come across anyone seriously thinking about hedonic issues in a future with superabundance. He seems to have mostly come across the blind techno-optimists.
In fact the most interesting observation is that both you and McKibben argue strongly that removing all challenge from human life is a bad idea, though McKibben jumps to a relinquishment conclusion from this, rather than considering the possibility of re-introducing the right sort of challenge into a posthuman existence.
Eliezer, I’m reading Bill McKibben’s “Enough” at the moment, and it is interesting to note that he asks some of the same questions that you do. It seems that he has never come across anyone seriously thinking about hedonic issues in a future with superabundance. He seems to have mostly come across the blind techno-optimists.
In fact the most interesting observation is that both you and McKibben argue strongly that removing all challenge from human life is a bad idea, though McKibben jumps to a relinquishment conclusion from this, rather than considering the possibility of re-introducing the right sort of challenge into a posthuman existence.