Eugine_Nier comments on Using Evolution for Marriage or Sex - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 09 May 2013 03:23:36AM 4 points [-]

This is not the noncentral fallacy. This is me pointing out that the hypothetical argument I'm responding to proves too much.

Basically the problem with arguments of the form doing X gives pleasure therefore we should do more X, is that the same argument applies to wireheading. If you have no better reply than wireheading seems ewe and X doesn't, keep in mind that your intuitions about what is ewe change depending on what you do.