Also, one suspects that for positions generally resembling the one I think you’re taking, there is an error of equivocation or similar non-exactness. For example, between boredom as an experience and boredom behavior [...]
The issue is whether creatures with purely instrumental boredom will create a “boring, worthless, valueless future”.
Whether they have subjective boredom or just behavioural boredom seems like an irrelevant side-issue to me.
I have purely-instrumental boredom (to the best of my ability, of course).
Suggesting that purely-instrumental boredom will create a “boring, worthless, valueless future” is just a baseless criticism.
Yudkowsky’s idea that such creatures will explore first and then get on with tedious exploiting makes little sense. For example, “exploring” the task of expanding through the galaxy (which is a universal instrumental value) is inevitably going to take a very long time—due to the scale of the experiments required.
The issue is whether creatures with purely instrumental boredom will create a “boring, worthless, valueless future”.
Whether they have subjective boredom or just behavioural boredom seems like an irrelevant side-issue to me.
I have purely-instrumental boredom (to the best of my ability, of course).
Suggesting that purely-instrumental boredom will create a “boring, worthless, valueless future” is just a baseless criticism.
Yudkowsky’s idea that such creatures will explore first and then get on with tedious exploiting makes little sense. For example, “exploring” the task of expanding through the galaxy (which is a universal instrumental value) is inevitably going to take a very long time—due to the scale of the experiments required.