Lumifer comments on Outside the Laboratory - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 16 December 2013 06:28:26PM 0 points [-]

Eating pizza (or any other high-energy food that you happen to like) is intrinsically rewarding.

For what value of ‘intrinsically’? It sure isn't rewarding for a paperclip maximizer, and IIUC you seem to be implying that doing drugs isn't intrinsically rewarding for non-addicted people.

Comment author: Lumifer 16 December 2013 06:31:16PM 2 points [-]

For what value of ‘intrinsically’?

I think for the value of "biologically hardwired into humans".

Comment author: [deleted] 16 December 2013 06:51:06PM *  0 points [-]

(I was going to say ‘then so is alcohol’ (specifically, the feeling of being tipsy), then I remembered of this claim and realized I was probably about to commit the typical mind fallacy.)

Comment author: [deleted] 16 December 2013 06:59:33PM 1 point [-]

I'm not quite sure about this; there are certainly humans who find pizza inedible for cultural reasons. I suppose you could argue that the composition of pizza is such that it would appeal to a hypothetical "unbiased" human, but that might still be problematic.

Comment author: Lumifer 16 December 2013 07:04:54PM 0 points [-]

I think the argument is really for "any ... high-energy food that you happen to like", not for culture-specific things like pizza.