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I can't get all that much more explicit. It's near the level of raw logic and the 'conclusion you suggest' is included as a direct quote in case there was any doubt. Let's see.
A I don't want to be a really big integer!
B If you had to choose between being a really big integer and a really big negative integer, you'd be pretty much indifferent.
B is not implied by A.
I would have replaced my (grandparent) comment with the phrase 'non sequitur' except I wanted to acknowledge that Wei_Dai is almost certainly considering related issues beyond the conclusion he actually offered.
The force of the argument "I don't want to be a really big integer" is that "being wireheaded takes away what makes me me, and so I stop being a person I can identify with and become a really big integer". If that were so, the same would apply to anti-wireheading, and Wei Dai's question would apply. If you agree that wireheading is more desirable than anti-wireheading, then this and other arguments that it's not more desirable than any other state don't directly apply.
If we take the alternative reasonable interpretation "takes away almost everything what makes me me", no contradiction appears.
Yes, that makes sense.
I reject this combination of words and maintain my previous position.