are thinking

Returning to the individual case, we may wonder why intrinsification should occur? Whereas in the organizational case we might explain the phenomenon by appealing to principal-agent problems, in the individual case it would seem that some different explanation is

the concept of interestingness is very elastic,

I think what these reflections point to is this. We might worry that the utopians would fairly quickly run out of interestingness in their lives, once they had read the great masterpieces and visited the Taj Mahal, the Notre Dame, the Grand Canyon, and some other top tourist destinations. Of course, superintelligent AIs could write us many more

John Stuart Mill, the English utilitarian philosopher,

desideratum

The idea of the boredom prosthesis can be generalized into a more universal plan for avoiding unpleasant mental states by exporting elements of their functionality to external mechanisms.134

dehumanizing consumerism (Brave New World).

oppressive totalitarianism (Nineteen Eighty-Four)