I’ve seen surveys on what people are doing at random times. Here’s one on what people desire at random times: 208 participants (66% female) … indicated at least one current desire on half (49.9%) of the occasions at which they were beeped and responded (N=10,558), reported at least one recent desire on 26.7% of occasions, and reported neither a current nor recent desire on 27.6% of occasions. The most frequent desires among the total of 7,827 desire reports were those rooted in basic bodily needs: desires to eat (28.1%), sleep (10.3%), and drink (8.6%); followed by desires for media use (8.1%), leisure (7.2%), social contact (7.1%), hygiene-related activities (5.9%), tobacco use (4.8%), sex (4.6%), work (3.0%), coffee (2.9%), alcohol (2.7%), engagement in sports (2.6%), and spending (2.2%; category “other”: 1.9%). …
What about the desire to not carry a massive life-support backpack everywhere, or the desire to not have leaked filth dripping down the back of your pantleg? Without mass production based on designs laid out by competent professional engineers, any half-baked plumbing project is going to leak, especially if it's under dynamic stresses.
Don't actual people get most of their sense of meaning from fulfilling those kinds of "miserable thermostat" desires? Are you sure there would be enough subjective meaning left over to satisfy us if we automated the SIMS-style game we play all day?
It is what we lack that defines us. Every six seconds we blink to keep our eyes moist. We inhale to get more free oxygen to our blood. A clockwork of many physical and mental processes play out which need constant winding and calibration. Like our galaxy, we are matter surrounding and orbitting a core of voidness and desire.
A way for man to progress faster would be to carry an autonomous implant or backpack along at all time, such that the typical desires are right there, unconsciously. Food, drink, media, diversions, communication devices, grooming sprays, coffee, alcohol, tobacco and other smokables, genital stimulators, gaming platforms, and trading platforms.
With technology so attached chewing the various cuds, we become happier and freer to pursue the complex abstractions that can innovate a place of freedom. Don't be a chump and hand this to a university or government so they can continue using us as their captive desire fulfillment devices. Rather, pursue this in the private garages and workshops in clandestine collaboration of the emerging dominant yet non-maleficent overclass.
What about the desire to not carry a massive life-support backpack everywhere, or the desire to not have leaked filth dripping down the back of your pantleg? Without mass production based on designs laid out by competent professional engineers, any half-baked plumbing project is going to leak, especially if it's under dynamic stresses.
Don't actual people get most of their sense of meaning from fulfilling those kinds of "miserable thermostat" desires? Are you sure there would be enough subjective meaning left over to satisfy us if we automated the SIMS-style game we play all day?
Does the study discuss the differences between male and female subjects?
It is what we lack that defines us. Every six seconds we blink to keep our eyes moist. We inhale to get more free oxygen to our blood. A clockwork of many physical and mental processes play out which need constant winding and calibration. Like our galaxy, we are matter surrounding and orbitting a core of voidness and desire.
A way for man to progress faster would be to carry an autonomous implant or backpack along at all time, such that the typical desires are right there, unconsciously. Food, drink, media, diversions, communication devices, grooming sprays, coffee, alcohol, tobacco and other smokables, genital stimulators, gaming platforms, and trading platforms.
With technology so attached chewing the various cuds, we become happier and freer to pursue the complex abstractions that can innovate a place of freedom. Don't be a chump and hand this to a university or government so they can continue using us as their captive desire fulfillment devices. Rather, pursue this in the private garages and workshops in clandestine collaboration of the emerging dominant yet non-maleficent overclass.