fare comments on Hedonic vs Preference Utilitarianism in the Context of Wireheading - Less Wrong

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Comment author: fare 09 July 2012 04:00:29PM 2 points [-]

Happily, the criminal rapture of the overintelligent nerd has little chance of being implemented in our current world, unlike the criminal rapture of the ignorant and stupid masses (see socialism, islamism, etc.). That's why your proposed mass crimes won't happen - though god forbids you convince early AIs of that model of happiness to maximize.