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Thomas comments on Why No Wireheading? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Thomas 19 June 2011 08:15:55AM 0 points [-]

You are right, muflax. There just isn't any explanation for badness of the "wireheading".

The case is the following:

Overall, it sounds to me like people are confusing their feelings about (predicted) states of the world with caring about states directly.