AlexSchell comments on A definition of wireheading - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AlexSchell 02 December 2012 06:51:51AM *  1 point [-]

I eiher don't understand your hypothetical or you didn't understand the linked post.

But I'll try: if you're talking about an agent whose utility function really specifies stimulating one's brain with contraptions involving wires (call this wireheading#) as a terminal value [ETA: or, more plausibly, specifies subjective pleasure as a terminal value], then their wireheading# activities are not [ETA: necessarily] wireheading as discussed here, it seems to me.

Comment author: brazil84 02 December 2012 02:29:57PM 0 points [-]

Let's do this: Can you give me a few examples of human behavior which you see as execution of adaptations?