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maia comments on Hedonic vs Preference Utilitarianism in the Context of Wireheading - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: jkaufman 29 June 2012 01:50PM

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Comment author: maia 03 July 2012 05:35:28PM 0 points [-]

That's true. I've been using the term "utility" in a way that is probably wrong. What I really meant is that humans have different kinds of things they want to maximize, and get unhappy if some of them are fulfilled and others aren't... so their utility functions are complicated.

The obvious problem with standard wireheading is that it only maximizes one of the things humans want.