adamzerner comments on Are wireheads happy? - Less Wrong
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The big point I took away from this article is that wanting and liking are different, and thus we should be skeptical of "revealed preferences".
But the title seemed to imply that the article wanted to address the question of whether or not we should wirehead. The last paragraph seems to argue that we should be really careful with wireheading, because we could get it wrong and not really know that we got it wrong.
I agree with this, but given that it's a central argument of the article, I think it could use a longer explanation.