Alive

People should live in a world that fully engages their senses, their bodies, and their brains.  This means either that the world resembles the ancestral savanna more than say a windowless office; or alternatively, that brains and bodies have changed to be fully engaged by different kinds of complicated challenges and environments.

Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Novelty

Life should contain novelty – experiences you haven’t encountered before, preferably teaching you something you didn’t already know.  If there isn’t a sufficient supply of novelty (relative to the speed at which you generalize), you’ll get bored.

Eliezer Yudkowsky
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15/07/2019

Take me higher.
No no, not this little; Take me more higher!
Let me kiss the stars, let me bathe in the outer space!

And then,
Throw me down! Throw me ruthlessly down!
Don’t ask me, and don’t even give me a hint. Just push me out!
I will fall. I will be afraid very much. Afraid till I wanna die!

But then, if I am gonna die anyways,
Atleast I’ll try.
Who knows, again, I may fly!

Self

15/07/2019