tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post4161704728754361262..comments2024-03-28T09:59:13.754-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: The Futility of Utility*bionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-55161734925381898492020-03-17T16:51:02.646-07:002020-03-17T16:51:02.646-07:00This is very good, cosmic.This is very good, cosmic.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-57328928191740233722020-03-16T11:34:40.967-07:002020-03-16T11:34:40.967-07:00To want to avoid pain because it's too strong ...To want to avoid pain because it's too strong to handle - as opposed to its signifying something best avoided... it reveals a shallowness and a weakness that's barely even worthy of contempt. It's the same kind of "thinking" that brought us safe spaces.<br /><br />Even from a purely systems perspective, pain is one of the feedback channels that tell us what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided. If you take away pain and leave only pleasure and lack of pleasure... lack of pleasure becomes the new pain. And if you set the maximum intensity of discomfort a person can feel at a low level, you've got a new problem - what then is the difference between pricking a finger and being torn apart by a hungry beast? Do the authors of this brilliant idea think the pain "feature" is unnecessary, that it's enough to tell apart "bad" from "really bad" consciously?<br /><br />Don't our feelings (including pain), and their relative intensity, shape and regulate our conscious perception of reality? What will "no pain" do to people's attitude towards cruelty, for example? We can take a cue from the effect that "no love, no heartbreak, no children - just sex" has had on society, and that was just a regular propaganda campaign without effect on our nuts and bolts.<br /><br />The problem with these people is that they think they're smart, but they can only fiddle with dials and have no notion of how the parts work together. Any technology guy will tell you that's the worst sort of idiot to allow near a complicated system.<br /><br />This is Nilo by the way... decided to change my online persona to something a bit more anonymous...cosmic dwarfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16562864681773374828noreply@blogger.com