Comment author: Splat 03 February 2010 08:14:20PM 2 points [-]

You really need to offer an argument for at least one of these two things to make your point:

  • A utilitarian aiming to maximize subjectively hypervaluable states will not tile orgasmium.
  • It is good to tile orgasmium.
Comment author: Splat 03 February 2010 08:10:23PM 4 points [-]

The neurology, while detailed, seems a little confused. In particular, adding mu-opioid receptors to every neuron in the brain sounds more like a recipe for epilepsy than for superhappiness.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 03 February 2010 07:25:27PM 1 point [-]

Question: do people think this post was too long? In the beginning, I thought that it would be a good idea to give a rough overview of DFT to give an idea of some of the ways by which pure utility functions could be made more reflective of actual human behavior. Near the end, though, I was starting to wonder if it would've been better to just sum it up in, say, three paragraphs.

Comment author: Splat 03 February 2010 07:56:00PM 1 point [-]

I found the detail helpful. Even more detail might have been good, but you'd have had to write a sequence.

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Comment author: Blueberry 27 January 2010 07:06:27PM 3 points [-]

Such pills do exist in the real world: a lot of sleeping pills have similar effects, as does consuming significant amounts of alcohol.

Comment author: Splat 01 February 2010 04:35:49AM 2 points [-]

For that matter, so does falling asleep in the normal way.

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