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I now turn on and waaaay up all of my new, semi-synthetic pleasure responses, and spend however long it takes _thoroughly_ organizing all of prime copy's music, across as many variables as I can think of. I'll also spend some time searching out new music that I like, under the assumption that, if I haven't screwed up, prime copy will like it as well. The one possible problem there is that I can't be bored by the music, but that's not really avoidable; I'l just have to wait for prime copy's feedback about those pieces of music that ey finds boring. The goal here is to make sure that I enjoy both of these activities (organizing and finding) so much that doing anything else seems pointless, and that I enjoy them about equally, or possibly with a slight preference for finding, as that is more relevant long term.
Having done all of this, I contact prime copy and start taking requests for music ey would like to listen to (which I use my organized music set and intimate knowledge of my own preferences to provide), as well as present to em the new music I've found. At this point I do some last-minute tweaking to make sure that this third activity (helping prime copy listen to good music) is as enjoyable as the other two.
Having worked out all the mind altering details, and being now a fair distance from human (more like an extremely happy idiot savant), I settle down to engaging in these three activities for the rest of my (extremely happy) existence.
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The problem I was trying to solve, primarily, was that I often feel that there is so much media out there that I would really enjoy if only I had time to try it all and see what I liked. Getting a sentient jukebox was just a side effect.
The first person I told this idea to is a rather high SL2, and ey was _horrified_ that I would waste a full sentience on such a relatively meaningless task. Ey felt that it wouldn't be so bad if the mind was at least doing other things as well. I don't think having it also review books would count, though.
What I found fascinating about eir response was that the fact that this was self-chosen self-mutilation didn't make any difference. This from a person who is normally adamant about others' rights to self-modification.
It was the first time that I had encountered such a strong future shock reaction. I knew that my attitude about this sort of thing was unusual, but I didn't know it was _that_ unusual. That conversation made me cerain I had to write this down.