"But another possibility is that we engineer the perfect happiness drug, with no bad side effects, and no one wants to do anything but lay in bed and take this drug all day, sapping all ambition from the human race."
That would be a pretty bad side effect in itself. There are some pretty nice drugs that approximate what you say, yet as a population we mostly get on with our lives.
It's not in our nature to be satisfied with any persistent state - positive, negative or neutral. So as a tail risk worth worrying about I'd put this in your terrorism category.
That would be a pretty bad side effect in itself. There are some pretty nice drugs that approximate what you say, yet as a population we mostly get on with our lives.
It's not in our nature to be satisfied with any persistent state - positive, negative or neutral. So as a tail risk worth worrying about I'd put this in your terrorism category.