luv 2 live in a post-pain world where upon encountering an object which should be avoided i spend the next three weeks meticulously updating the hedonic value of every other object
qualia functionalism feels true because our intuitions are so heavily biased by the fact that we only have experience with agents that were produced by evolution. a person's subjective state and outer behavior tend to "match" because it is efficient
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but in public my behavior is the same as a happy person. i'm so good at it that even people who know me well can't tell when it's real or not the reverse also already happens. actors scream in agony and have fun doing it. some people exaggerate pain to get pills from doctors
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we don't see this all the time because simulating a different emotion is inefficient and exhausting, and inefficient agents get outcompeted but if computational expense weren't an issue, you could make agents who pretend full time
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