Thanks for the response! This puts several misunderstandings I had to rest.
P.S. Why programing of Azathoth? In my mind it makes it sound as if desire to have children was something intristically bad.
Programming of Azathoth because Azathoth doesn’t give a shit about what you wish your own values were. Therefore what you want has no impact whatsoever on what your body and brain are programmed to do, such as make some humans want to have children even when every single aspect of it is negative (e.g. painful sex, painful pregnancy, painful birthing, hell to raise children, hellish economic conditions, absolutely horrible life for the child, etc. etc. such as we’ve seen some examples of in slave populations historically)
I suspect our world views might differ for a bit, as I don’t wish that my values where any different than they are. Why should I?
If Azathoth decided to instill the value that having children is somehow desirable deep into my mind, than I am very happy that as a first world parent I have all the resources I need to turn it into a pleasant endeavor with a very high expected value (happy new human who hopefully likes me and hopefully shares my values, but I don’t have much confidence in a second bet).
Thanks for the response! This puts several misunderstandings I had to rest.
Programming of Azathoth because Azathoth doesn’t give a shit about what you wish your own values were. Therefore what you want has no impact whatsoever on what your body and brain are programmed to do, such as make some humans want to have children even when every single aspect of it is negative (e.g. painful sex, painful pregnancy, painful birthing, hell to raise children, hellish economic conditions, absolutely horrible life for the child, etc. etc. such as we’ve seen some examples of in slave populations historically)
I suspect our world views might differ for a bit, as I don’t wish that my values where any different than they are. Why should I?
If Azathoth decided to instill the value that having children is somehow desirable deep into my mind, than I am very happy that as a first world parent I have all the resources I need to turn it into a pleasant endeavor with a very high expected value (happy new human who hopefully likes me and hopefully shares my values, but I don’t have much confidence in a second bet).