How?
The only answer I could really imagine starts to get into the territory of wireheading. But if that's the end that we seek, then we're pretty much there now. Soon enough we'll have the resources to let everyone wirehead as much as they want. If that's true, then why even bother with FAI (and risk things going wrong with it)? (Note: I suspect that FAI is worth it. But this is the argument I make when I argue against myself, and I don't really know how to respond.)
The only answer I could really imagine starts to get into the territory of wireheading.
Exactly. If dath ilan tried to do it, they'd get well into the territory of wireheading. Only an FAI could start to get there, and then stop at exactly the right place.
Even if you're totally in favor of wireheading, whatever it is you're wireheading has to be sentient. Dath ilan would have to use an entire human brain just to be sure. An FAI could make an optimally sentient orgasmium.
That's just happiness though. An FAI could create new emotions from scratch. Nobody v...
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