The key to happiness.

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Ah, the Phineas Gage approach. Nice.
- What the fuck how can anyone survive that ? What the hell ?
  
  The inner workings of the mind are a mystery we've hardly scratched the surface of understanding. His basic functions remained, but his demeanor and personality dramatically shifted. Let alone his survival. His case let us know that we don't know shit, relatively speaking.
  
  Like how an old twisted coathangar can still work fine as a radio antenna.
- Or JFK's sister
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy
  
  Yeah, that one's just tragic since it was done to her, rather than some accident. Shady "medical" practice.
- Or rather the no longer phineas gage approach.
This is why if AGI is eventually created, making humans happy should NOT be a directive.
- I don't know, man... an ice pick scraping out your frontal lobe will make global warming far more tolerable.
  
  And if they mess it up you don't have to tolerate it at all!
- They weren't happy, they became walking vegetables. They'd destroy the brain until they were manageable, not until they were "happy." Splitting the lobes became an actual treatment for epilepsy, though.
Ahhh, that's how to be happy in this hell world! Seems I got the wrong lobes pierced!
Looking forward to getting mine at Claire’s!
BECKY, GET IN ON THIS HOT NEW TREND I FOUND ON NEXTDOOR. YOU WON'T BELIEVE IT.
- People would do it. Join us, it's bliss!
FIRE IN THE HOLE!

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