Amanojack 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: CuSithBell 16 June 2011 05:05:45PM 9 points [-]

Consider the package deal to include getting your brain rewired so that you would receive pleasure from the end of mankind. Now do you choose the package deal?

I wouldn't. Can you explain to me why I wouldn't, if you believe the only thing I can want is pleasure?

Maybe you're hyperbolically discounting that future pleasure and it's outweighed by the temporary displeasure caused by agreeing to something abhorrent? ;)

Comment author: Amanojack 10 August 2011 03:05:22AM 1 point [-]

Plus we have a hard time conceiving of what it would be like to always be in a state of maximal, beyond-orgasmic pleasure.

When I imagine it I cannot help but let a little bit of revulsion, fear, and emptiness creep into the feeling - which of course would not be actually be there. This invalidates the whole thought experiment to me, because it's clear I'm unable to perform it correctly, and I doubt I'm uncommon in that regard.