rwallace, I’m not sure there is any actual disagreement between us. All I’m saying is that those who have not actually tried wireheading (or otherwise has knowledge about what it feels like to be wireheaded) perhaps shouldn’t be so sure that they really prefer not to be wireheaded. And I never mentioned anything about forcibly wireheading people. (Maybe you confused my position with denisbider’s?)
The change that I suggested in my argument belongs to category 2, updating in light of new evidence. I wrote that the FAI would “try to extrapolate what your preferences would be if you knew what it felt like to be wireheaded.”
I took this to mean that you agreed with denisbider’s position of licensing the initiation of force and justifying it based on what the altered version of the victim would prefer after the event—was that not your intent? If not, then you’re right, we don’t disagree to anywhere near the extent I had thought.
rwallace, I’m not sure there is any actual disagreement between us. All I’m saying is that those who have not actually tried wireheading (or otherwise has knowledge about what it feels like to be wireheaded) perhaps shouldn’t be so sure that they really prefer not to be wireheaded. And I never mentioned anything about forcibly wireheading people. (Maybe you confused my position with denisbider’s?)
I took this to mean that you agreed with denisbider’s position of licensing the initiation of force and justifying it based on what the altered version of the victim would prefer after the event—was that not your intent? If not, then you’re right, we don’t disagree to anywhere near the extent I had thought.