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NB: This is a follow-up to my previous essay The Criminal Stupidity of Intelligent People, as cross-posted to my blog: http://fare.livejournal.com/168562.html. As promised, here is a detailed rational refutation of the utilitarian concept of (Global) "Happiness Maximization" in general, and its specific variant that concludes in favor of wireheading, the...

What always fascinates me when I meet a group of very intelligent people is the very elaborate bullshit that they believe in. The naive theory of intelligence I first posited when I was a kid was that intelligence is a tool to avoid false beliefs and find the truth. Surrounded...