Which conscious experiences do we want?

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There are multiple factors to consider when it comes to which experiences that actually provide people with great lives.

Generally you want variation in terms of what you do and what you experience. Rather than doing the same thing every way you want to experience diversity in terms of experiences and also some degree of unpredictability.

While pain is often viewed as something we should just avoid it can actually provide people with new experiences and sensations making life more exciting and diverse in experiences. It's fairly obvious that a lot of people are masochists who actually enjoy having other people inflict pain upon them.

 

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A case of a female and a male
Let's say only 1 male and 1 female exist and the world is going to end in an 4 hours. You are randomly going to either live as the male or live as the female (50% probability for each).

There are basically 3 days in which the 2 can interact

0. Liberalism (they respect each other)
1. Male domination
2. Female domination
3. They fight each other

One advantage with having the male brutally dominate the female here is that then the male can have a lot of fun humiliating the female such as playing with her breasts and watch her react to that. Maybe experiment with different ways to finger her and see if you can make her orgasm. Maybe you can experiment with her anus stretching it.

But having the male brutally dominate the female might even provide a more fun experience for the female.

So rather than having the 2 respect each other having the male dominate the female (for example) might actually result in an overall better experience for the 2.

And here we can ignore various future consequences since none of them have any future.

The act of brutal domination provides the one being dominated by unpredictability (not knowing what will be done to you) and potentially offers a diversity of sensations and experiences.

So for this scenario it might be better if the female start out tied up so the male can do how he pleases.

One interesting alternative if female domination but most females does not seem particularly interested in being dominant like that. Males are also generally stronger making it easier for them to be physically dominant (reducing the need for restraints).

 

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Freedom to choose isn't always a good thing
Having a worse option made available for you is at best neutral but it can also be detrimental since then you might choose that worse option (due to limited intelligence).

If we look at videogames for example we see that games that force the player into taking a fixed route are often more fun since then the game developers can optimize for that particular way to play rather than trying to optimize the gameplay for many different routs (which is a lot harder and often lead to the game being mediocre).

A compromise is to have a more fixed path early on in life and later as you get older and learn more you get more freedoms given to you.

 

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Overcoming hardships
It can be an amazing feeling to finally prevailing beating a very difficult challenge.

If you have played videogames you will have noticed that games that are too easy are generally a lot less fun. Multiplayer games often benefit from rating-systems that match people based on how good they are. That keep people engaged since even if they improve the game will still be hard because now they have to face harder opponents.

When it comes to challenges in life it ranger from completely pointless to life or death (potentially also including your children). If something real is at stake it will generally be more exciting and fulfilling to actually complete the challenge.

If you life in a primitive world your survival will to a large extent be in your own hands. You having to build shelter, fend of large predators, hunt, etc.

It can be a lot harder to offer people the same meaning in a modern society where most people are safe and can survive easily. This is especially a problem in societies where the government enforces egalitarianism making it less worthwhile to work towards a better future for yourself.

http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/howard/Anarchism/Unabom/manifesto2.html

 

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Human goals and desires
Humans have evolved various preferences shaped by evolution. We like eating food, sex, raising a family, etc.

Evolution does over time push humans like other animals to behave in ways which is beneficial in terms of survival and reproduction. It's about which genes that causes themselves to replicate.

Being unwilling to impregnate a female against her will to reproduce when you would get away with that will for example likely be selected against.

That does not however mean that evolution will push humans to behave optimally in terms of reproductive success. Genetic evolution is a very crude process. Having genes enabling cultural evolution (which can take place much quicker) might be a better way to maximize reproductive success than direct genetic control over behaviour.

Humans have the ability to use their brain to force themselves to do things that are painful/unpleasurably.

 

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About hedonism and the brain
There is no shortage of people becoming miserable while merely chasing pleasure such as homeless drug addicts.

The brain have multiple mechanism to regulate how good you feel. If you start using drugs the brain will adjust itself too that and long-term you will not benefit much from it in terms of pleasure (it's likely even negative due to side effects and other issues).

The brain adjusting itself to stimuli very likely extends to stimulation not caused by drugs such as pornography.

 

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The case for brutal capitalism
Let's say a male "Adam" want's to sexually humiliate a female "Beatrice" but Beatrice doesn't want to participate in that. In that case if there are no restrictions on sex-trade Adam can simply offer Beatrice money to participate and then maybe she will agree to the humiliation even though she didn't really want to.

If there are no government handouts people who cannot earn money with dignity will have no choice but to give up their dignity in order to earn some money. This will make it more worthwhile to pursue economic success.

Instead of welfare we can have a system where people loan money from the government to pay back later. If they cannot pay the money back they will be reduced to property of the government and likely be sold as property to someone else.