This post is a formal request for everybody in this forum, who are the most likely humans to produce an FAI in the future, that in the possible resulting utopia some activity will still be available, even if they are not based on challenges of increasing complexity. I call these activity natural wireheadings, and since it is my right to determine my own fun-generating activities, I hereby formally request that some simple pleasure, listened below, will still be available at *any* point in my future cone, and that I will consider a dystopia any future which deprives me of these natural wireheadings (if anyone is still around caring for those things).
A (non-exhaustive) list of them includes the following:
- sex
- eating food/drinking
- feeling relieved for having emptied my bowels
- dancing
- the pleasure of physical activity (wood-carving, sculpting, running, etc)
- the rapture I feel when in the presence of a safe ancestral environment
- social laughter
- the pleasure of talking in a small, same-minded crowd
- listening to pop/metal/rap music
- the pleasure of resting when tired
- scratching an itch
-...
More will come!
You seem to be confusing terminal and instrumental values.
Do you really value "scratching an itch" in itself, such that you would be saddened if that activity was not available to you anymore? What if you gain a cybernetic body that doesn't itch anymore, but its splines need the occasional reticulating, which feels even better than an itch?
What if then another AI offers you to disregard the perfectible cybernetic body and live in a simulation in which there's just an enormous single pleasure available to you 24/7? If you disregard "parochial" values, in wedrifid terminology, what prevents you to collapse into an orgasmium? The point was not only that I value the pleasure coming from those activities, but that I value those activities as well.