ErikM comments on Failed Utopia #4-2 - Less Wrong

52 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 January 2009 11:04AM

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Comment author: Robin_Hanson2 21 January 2009 01:39:18PM 55 points [-]

You forgot to mention - two weeks later he and all other humans were in fact deliriously happy. We can see that he at this moment did not want to later be that happy, if it came at this cost. But what will he think a year or a decade later?

Comment author: ErikM 09 May 2012 08:22:13PM 4 points [-]

I suppose he will be thinking along the same lines as a wirehead.

Comment author: Deskchair 10 May 2012 04:43:18PM 5 points [-]

Is that a bad thing?

Comment author: FeepingCreature 08 February 2013 07:43:56PM 9 points [-]

Not for the wirehead, but for the mind who died to create him.