Wei_Dai comments on Welcome to Heaven - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 30 January 2010 02:42:40AM 6 points [-]

This seems like a good example of logical rudeness to me. Your original comment was premised on an equivalence (which you explicitly spelled out later) between being wireheaded and being a large integer. I pointed out that accepting this premise would lead to indifference between wireheading and anti-wireheading. That was obviously meant to be a reductio ad absurdum. But you ignored the reductio and switched to talking about why wireheading is not the most fun we could be having.

To be clear, I don't think wireheading is necessarily the most fun we could be having. I just think we don't know enough about the nature of pleasure, fun, and/or preference to decide that right now.

Comment author: [deleted] 30 January 2010 02:58:51AM *  3 points [-]

You know, you're right. That was a bit of a non sequitur.

Back to the original point, I think I'm starting to chang my mind about the equivalence between a wirehead and a number (insert disclaimer about how everything is a number): after all, I'd feel worse about killing one than tilting an abacus.

Maybe "But I don't want to spend a lot of time doing something so simple" would work for version 3.0