AlephNeil comments on Open Thread: June 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AlephNeil 02 June 2010 09:59:49PM 2 points [-]

OK - well that's one possibility. But in discussing either of these analogies, aren't we just showing (a) that the pleasure-button scenario is underdetermined, because there are many different kinds of pleasure and (b) that it's redundant, because people can actually give each other pats on the back, or hand-jobs or whatever.