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Notice how you had to assume the altruist to have the extraordinary degree of intelligence and rationality to calculate the best possible wish and Stephen merely had to assume that the selfishness was of the goodwill-toward-men-if-it-doesn't-cost-me-anything sort? When you require less implausible assumptions to render a given ethical philosophy genie-resilient, the philosophy is more genie-resilient.
" Eh? An altruist would voluntarily summon disaster upon the world?" No, an altruist's good-outcomes are complex enough to be difficult to distinguish from disasters by verbal rules. An altruist has to calculate for 6 billion evaluative agents, an egoist just 1.
" By the way, I have some questions about wireheading. What is it, really? Why is it so repulsive?" Wireheading is more or less where a sufficiently powerful agent told to optimize for happiness optimizes for the emotional referents without the intellectual and teleological human content typically associated with that.
You can perform primitive wireheading right now with various recreational drugs. The fact that almost everyone uses at least a few of the minor ones tells... (read more)