rwallace comments on You cannot be mistaken about (not) wanting to wirehead - Less Wrong

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Comment author: rwallace 27 January 2010 08:49:09AM 0 points [-]

The change that I suggested in my argument belongs to category 2, updating in light of new evidence. I wrote that the FAI would "try to extrapolate what your preferences would be if you knew what it felt like to be wireheaded."

I took this to mean that you agreed with denisbider's position of licensing the initiation of force and justifying it based on what the altered version of the victim would prefer after the event -- was that not your intent? If not, then you're right, we don't disagree to anywhere near the extent I had thought.