Nornagest comments on Just another day in utopia - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nornagest 17 January 2012 08:32:54PM 3 points [-]

Depends on the criteria the machines are using to evaluate fun, of course -- it needn't be limited to immediate pleasure, and in fact a major point of the Fun Theory sequence is that immediate pleasure is a poor metric for capital-F Fun. Human values are complex and there's a lot of possible ways to get them wrong, but people are pretty bad at maximizing them too.