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title: "094-a-look-at-suffering"
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- podcast/philosophizethis
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niel degrasse tyson said two things to live your life by
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- know more today than you did yesterday
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- limit the suffering of others
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Is the second one something we should all do?
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fyodor dostoyevsky says suffering is a necessary part of human life.
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How do we define human progress?
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Transhumanism/hedonistic imperative
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- we limit physical pain by drugs
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- why not limit all pain and place ourselves in an eternal state of bliss
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This idea has a lot of implications:
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- if we cant feel any pain, will we still be able to experience pleasure
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- one arugment is that yes we will since people who are in almost constant pain still know they are in pain
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- Will we still be motivated to create new things, experiement, improve our condition etc
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Dream thought experiment
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- if every time you slept and had a dream you lived a ful 75 year lifetime in that dream
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- at first you would live a perfect life, you would have everything you wanted: money, sex, etc
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- but eventually this would get boring and you'd introduce variance and things out of your control
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- then after some time, you'd want to not know you were even dreaming at all
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- at this point, you are just living in real life
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