Wei_Dai comments on A Thought Experiment on Pain as a Moral Disvalue - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 11 March 2011 10:50:55PM 3 points [-]

If pressed to refine my concept of happiness, I had two avenues open

What about Eliezer's position, which you don't seem to address, that happiness is just one value among many? Why jump to the (again, highly counterintuitive) conclusion that happiness is not a value at all?