I may not actually want to pay $1 per squirrel, but if I still want to want to, then that’s as significant a part of my ethics as my desire to avoid being a wire-head, even though once I tried it I would almost certainly never want to stop.
I would rather observe you & see what you do to avoid becoming a wirehead. I’d put saying you want to avoid becoming a wirehead & saying you want to want to pay to save the squirrels in the same camp—totally unprovable at this point in time. In the future maybe we can scan your brain & see which of your stated preferences you are likely to act on; that’d be extremely cool, especially if we could scan politicians during their campaigns.
I may not actually want to pay $1 per squirrel, but if I still want to want to, then that’s as significant a part of my ethics as my desire to avoid being a wire-head, even though once I tried it I would almost certainly never want to stop.
I would rather observe you & see what you do to avoid becoming a wirehead. I’d put saying you want to avoid becoming a wirehead & saying you want to want to pay to save the squirrels in the same camp—totally unprovable at this point in time. In the future maybe we can scan your brain & see which of your stated preferences you are likely to act on; that’d be extremely cool, especially if we could scan politicians during their campaigns.