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blacktrance comments on What makes us think _any_ of our terminal values aren't based on a misunderstanding of reality? - Less Wrong
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My terminal value is my own happiness. I know that it exists because I have experienced it, and experience it regularly. I can't imagine a world in which someone convinces me that I don't experience something that I experience.
"Happiness" as a concept sounds simple in the same way "a witch did it" sounds simple as an explanation. Most people consider wireheading to be a failure state, and defining "happiness" so as to avoid wireheading is not simple.
Happiness as a feeling is simple, though it may be caused by complex things. If wireheading would make me happy - that is, give me the best possible enjoyable feeling in the world - I'd wirehead. I don't consider that a failure state.