steven0461 comments on Holden's Objection 1: Friendliness is dangerous - Less Wrong

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Comment author: steven0461 20 May 2012 11:32:07PM *  3 points [-]

Yes, but there are other cases. If you prefer eating a cookie to having the pleasure centers in your brain maximally stimulated, are you sure that's not because eating a cookie sounds on some level like it would be more pleasurable?

Comment author: TheOtherDave 21 May 2012 02:23:49AM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure how I could ever be sure of such a thing, but it certainly seems implausible to me.