When you start to simulate having sex to an EM I think you are very fast near wireheading.
Possibly, but note that there are humans that have a lot of available opportunities to have sex, yet prefer to do other things. If a simulated human spent a lot of time having sex, and is given the opportunity to reduce his sex drive, he may want to do so.
(still, I think that wireheading does loom large as things-that-matter here)
Possibly, but note that there are humans that have a lot of available opportunities to have sex, yet prefer to do other things. If a simulated human spent a lot of time having sex, and is given the opportunity to reduce his sex drive, he may want to do so.
(still, I think that wireheading does loom large as things-that-matter here)
Sex is an obvious example of a physical experience but not the only one. Nearly all pleasureable experiences involve physical perception in some way.