Emile comments on Ideas wanted: democracy in an Em world - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Emile 07 June 2013 12:04:25PM 1 point [-]

When you start to simulate having sex to an EM I think you are very fast near wireheading.

Possibly, but note that there are humans that have a lot of available opportunities to have sex, yet prefer to do other things. If a simulated human spent a lot of time having sex, and is given the opportunity to reduce his sex drive, he may want to do so.

(still, I think that wireheading does loom large as things-that-matter here)

Comment author: ChristianKl 07 June 2013 12:48:44PM 1 point [-]

Sex is an obvious example of a physical experience but not the only one. Nearly all pleasureable experiences involve physical perception in some way.