Why is anyone against wireheading? Wireheading sounds great
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this attitude is so interesting to me, I do not get it on an intuitive level
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To me the question boils down to: Is your *purpose* for existing utterly selfish or does it relate to how you impact others? Do you have a duty to make some mark on the world?
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My answers are 1) there is no purpose in that sense and 2) no
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I don't see it in terms of duty at all, I think of it as a more profound selfishness
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creation influence power etc are acts of propagating/extending the self, which I feel an intense urge to do
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because I hold my self in very high esteem and believe there deserves to be more of it
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(this is again all predicated on the black hole assumption that goes in hand with the thought experiment, which implies...
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...it is potent enough to override one's will and thus is a grave hazard. if it's a thing one can do to like unwind for...
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...an hour or two at the end of the day or whatever then it's fine and no different from occasional recreational drug use)
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