pleasure is the “measure of utility”. That is; utility is pleasure; pleasure is utility.
Eudaimonic pleasure—happiness—is of a nature that wireheading would not qualify as valid happiness/pleasure. It would be like ‘empty calories’; tasty but unfulfilling.
So no, I do not not mean that ‘pleasure is the “measure of utility”’ is the mainstream consensus view on LessWrong. I do mean that, and I believe it to be so. “Hedons” and “utilons” are used interchangeably here.
So you do not mean that LWers hold that pleasure (by which I mean the standard definition) is the measure of utility, and that these people would wirehead and are therefore wrong.
I see. Then you do not mean that
is the consensus view here at LW. Since after all, the consensus view here is that wireheading is a bad idea.
Eudaimonic pleasure—happiness—is of a nature that wireheading would not qualify as valid happiness/pleasure. It would be like ‘empty calories’; tasty but unfulfilling.
So no, I do not not mean that ‘pleasure is the “measure of utility”’ is the mainstream consensus view on LessWrong. I do mean that, and I believe it to be so. “Hedons” and “utilons” are used interchangeably here.
So you do not mean that LWers hold that pleasure (by which I mean the standard definition) is the measure of utility, and that these people would wirehead and are therefore wrong.