Miller comments on Not for the Sake of Pleasure Alone - Less Wrong

36 Post author: lukeprog 11 June 2011 11:21PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 12 June 2011 12:06:02AM 16 points [-]

I wonder how much taking these facts into account helps. The error that gets people round up to simplistic goals such as "maximize pleasure" could just be replayed at a more sophisticated level, where they'd say "maximize neural correlates of wanting" or something like that, and move to the next simplest thing that their current understanding of neuroscience doesn't authoritatively forbid.

Comment author: Miller 12 June 2011 09:41:38AM 1 point [-]

Sounds like a decent methodology to me.