Meaning of hedonium | Babel Free

Definitions

Matter arranged in a way that produces pleasure or happiness as efficiently as possible, as might be encouraged by philosophical hedonism.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“Suppose⟳ that we agreed to allow⟳ almost the entire accessible universe to be converted into hedonium—everything except a small preserve⟳, say⟳ the Milky Way, which would be set⟳ aside to accommodate our own⟳ needs.”

“It’s because we intuitively or pre-theoretically think⟳ that we shouldn’t give⟳ all our cookies to the utility monster or kill⟳ ourselves to tile the solar system with hedonium that we reject⟳ the straightforward extension of utilitarian happiness-maximizing theory to such cases and reach⟳ for a different solution.”

“Suppose⟳ the AI goes on to convert all matter⟳ in the accessible universe to hedonium, i.e., to rearrange matter⟳ so as to produce⟳ the greatest amount of pleasurable experience⟳ per unit mass.”

“The Machine Intelligence Research⟳ Institute's Buck Shlegeris recently recounted a conversation where “someone said that after the Singularity, if there was a magic button that would turn⟳ all of humanity into homogenous goop optimized for happiness (aka hedonium), they'd press⟳ it.[…]””

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