[petercooper]

Isn't the end game an endless stream of personalized content for everyone?

We can keep going. Why would that be desirable? It hits the right chemical buttons in the brain. Drag it out far enough and we're really aiming at being blissed out brains in jars being fed shots of endorphins at the right intervals.

[psyc]

I think I'm partial to a variant of wireheading that sort of linearly shifts our perception of pain and pleasure. Getting an arm hacked off is like a bad headache, normal undesirable things are like a minor ache, normal day-to-day is like a fun night out, and orgasm is like ... I don't know, heroin I guess.

[toomanybeersies]

I don't know if the human brain could handle that. If you have too many fun nights out, they start to wear. If you take too many drugs, they start to lose the magic, they just become normal.

You need the highs with the lows.

[spondyl]

I suppose if we got to that point, you could replace that portion of the brain with cybernetics, save the state before having taken any drugs then every so often, flash it back to the beginning?

[Godel_unicode]

If you haven't read Peter F Hamilton's Commonwealth saga, you might appreciate it. Memory editing plus effective immortality is an interesting concept.

[djsumdog]

Best expressed by the philosophy of Butters:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/southpark/images/b/b3/A_...

[ball_of_lint]

https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3662