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TheOtherDave comments on Kevin Drum's Article about AI and Technology - Less Wrong Discussion

19 Post author: knb 15 May 2013 07:38AM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 16 May 2013 10:46:15PM 3 points [-]

This gets difficult to specify, because "productive" and "important" are themselves ill-defined, but I certainly mean to include "virtual reality/video game heaven" within "wireheading," including VR environments including virtual people that pretend to love and befriend me. (This is distinguished from actual people who really do love and befriend me, whether they have flesh-and-blood bodies or not.)

That said, I have no idea, ultimately, if I would prefer the continuous-orgasm video game or the fake-love-and-friendship video game... I might well prefer the latter, or to switch back and forth, or something else.

Comment author: ESRogs 17 May 2013 05:47:59PM 0 points [-]

Ah, that clears things up, thanks!