Peter Singer: "Everyone should give away all their excess money because there should be no reward for wisdom and no penalty for foolishness, and I'm not just lying through my teeth pretending to be a big dumb idiot."
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... Pleasure and pain are just signals from evolutionary history that a path of behavior is endorsed by precedent, or not. To make of hedonic messaging the ultimate currency of value is madness -- i.e. already implicit wire-heading.
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Of course. One of the things that needs to be swapped out of utilitarianism is base hedonism for higher-order values. Pleasure => satisfaction, basically.
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