ciphergoth comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

97 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2010 11:23PM

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Comment author: ciphergoth 15 March 2010 09:25:25AM 6 points [-]

Why would you take such a pill? So that you can have more fun, or for some other reason?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 March 2010 10:22:41AM 17 points [-]

So I wouldn't miss out on half the fun.

Comment author: ciphergoth 15 March 2010 12:15:45PM 24 points [-]

How do you distinguish the sort of fun it's worth changing your values to enjoy from the sort of fun (like wireheading) it's worth not having access to?

Of course, it's nothing like half the fun you're missing. Adding a gender would increase your fun by less than 100% since it's not that different in many ways. Adding all the sexual variation in the world would be a humongous amount of fun, but you'd start to hit diminishing returns after a while.