I recently read an article on Big Think that reminded me of something I wrote on the old Cryonics Mailing List 29 years ago on January 19, 1994:
"*Ever want to accomplish something but have been unable to because It's difficult, well just change your goal in life to something simple and do that; better yet, flood your mind with a feeling of pride and self satisfaction and don't bother accomplishing anything. Think all this is a terrible idea and stupid as well , no problem, just change your mind (and I do mean CHANGE YOUR MIND) now you think it's a wonderful idea. O.K., O.K. I'm exaggerating a little, the steps would probably be smaller, at least at first, but the result would be the same. I don't have the blueprints for a Jupiter brain in my pocket but I do know that complex mechanisms don't do well in a positive feedback loop, not electronics, not animals, not people and not Jupiter brains. True, you could probably set up negative feedback of some kind to counteract it, but that would result in a decrease in happiness so would you really want to do that?*" I could've summed it up by saying it might be the explanation of the Fermi paradox and that extraterrestrial civilizations may not end in a bang or a whimper but in a moan of orgastic pleasure. The pursuit of pleasure could doom all intelligent life <https://bigthink.com/the-future/pursuit-happiness-doom-intelligent-life-blissful-extinction/> John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> vho -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1e%2B_5rtSmsASP%3DLOpdn-m8hZoOVxBAy4cU%2B_76m-G2rA%40mail.gmail.com.
