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

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Comment author: handoflixue 13 June 2011 04:07:23AM 3 points [-]

In the experience machine scenario, you would never get bored

Exactly! My intuition was wrong; it's trained on an ancestral environment where that isn't true, so it irrationally rejects the experience machine as "obviously" suffering from the same flaw. Now that I'm aware of that irrationality, I can route around it and say that the experience machine actually sounds like a really sweet deal :)