atucker comments on Non-personal preferences of never-existed people - Less Wrong

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Comment author: atucker 12 March 2011 01:16:40AM 1 point [-]

In general, I think that most desires aren't fulfilled on a viscerally emotional level by the mere existence of something so much as actually receiving it. I'm not nearly as fulfilled by ice-cream's existence as I am fulfilled when I'm eating it.

I don't think those people would prefer having their preferences changed in that way.

Comment author: DanielLC 17 April 2011 06:30:39AM 0 points [-]

If you mean they have to get the emotion of a preference being fulfilled, isn't that happiness?