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To do some utilitarianism for a bit: there's this really common idea that you can't ever abolish suffering without losing something, but I think this is misguided. I feel there's a cluster of positive-valence states that are roughly equal in value that can be cycled through, some of which entail zen-flow productivity, & any superwellbeing maximizer will optimally explore this space without ever getting caught in the dreaded 'pleasure trap,' and without ever having to fall into negative states

2 reasons for this:
I know that the brain abhors a steady state, and 'keeping your finger on the button' will eventually result in downregulation
&
given the richness of everything I've experienced, in both sober and altered states, the idea of a 'single' pleasure state is just... completely wrong. There's 'firing on all cylinders' euphoria as well as 'melty warm blissful' euphoria at a very minimum

Anyways, go forth and abolish suffering it'll be fuckin lit

@JCorvinus
aye

that's fucking the spirit

you gotta be qualia-trajectorymaxxing. you gotta be valencepilled. rainbowgod the whole space at H≥0

@JCorvinus oh yea, there may be a limit to every form of pleasure but since it's a continuous spectrum there's always another form! heaven is only boring if it's not novel and creative, and challenge without suffering is 1000% possible :D

@JCorvinus ask me how i know (autistic special interests), hell i've been working on Stardust for YEARS and i've figured out that it just takes a bit to reset my brain, then again my brain actually does the opposite of habituation in many ways.

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