Comment by sublinear
9 days ago
And yet that money is ultimately spent on more means to ends that are just as inconvenient from another perspective?
My point was that there is no true end goal as long as whims continue. The need to craft yet more means is equally endless. The crafting is the primary human experience, not the using. The using of a means inevitably becomes transparent and boring.
It should finalize into introducing satisfaction to the whims directly, so the AI would be directly managing the chemicals in our brains that would trigger feelings of reward and satisfaction.
I think you're just describing drugs
Yes, but current drugs have many issues such as tolerance build up and withdrawals. If AI could figure out how to directly manage chemicals in the brain in such a way that it keeps working, it would be able to attain its goals of making people happy.