#rationality #effective-altruism # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought #to-digest # Related - [[Reciprocal positivity]] - [[Transhumanism is the most effective altruism]] - [[Utilitarianism]] - [[Effective Altruism]] - [[Morality|Ethics]] - [[Eliezer Yudkowsky - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality|Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality]] # Optimising the universe How should I be optimised? The [[Utilitarianism|utilitarian]] says we should reduce the subjective experience of [[Pain|pain]], to my knowledge I am not aware of many other philosophies parallel to this one. How can we achieve this goal? Anti-natalists say we should stop creating life, sure, that works. But what about the subjective experience of [[Joy|joy]]? Or this experience that makes forms of life feel "good", without any more [[Science|scientific]] way to describe it.