That doesn’t dissolve the problem completely for me, it just moves the confusion from “Why do humans disagree on wireheading?” to “Why do humans have different views on what constitutes death?”. Is it just something you memetically pick up and that then dominates your values?
I’d rather assume that the (hypothetical) value difference comes first and we then use this to classify what counts as “dead”. “yup, can still get pleasure there, I must be alive” vs. “nope, can’t affect the external world, I must be dead”.
That is a very interesting question. I’m sure I feel quite as puzzled looking at you from this side as you do looking at me from that side. I would also assume that there is some other first factor.
Sadly, it would be a bit outside of the depth of my understanding of metaphysics (and the scope of this page) to try and discover what it is. Still, I am intrigued about it and will keep thinking on the subject.
That doesn’t dissolve the problem completely for me, it just moves the confusion from “Why do humans disagree on wireheading?” to “Why do humans have different views on what constitutes death?”. Is it just something you memetically pick up and that then dominates your values?
I’d rather assume that the (hypothetical) value difference comes first and we then use this to classify what counts as “dead”. “yup, can still get pleasure there, I must be alive” vs. “nope, can’t affect the external world, I must be dead”.
That is a very interesting question. I’m sure I feel quite as puzzled looking at you from this side as you do looking at me from that side. I would also assume that there is some other first factor.
Sadly, it would be a bit outside of the depth of my understanding of metaphysics (and the scope of this page) to try and discover what it is. Still, I am intrigued about it and will keep thinking on the subject.