I think that I’m missing some of the anti-wireheading genes; not that there wouldn’t exist behaviors that I’d classify as wireheading and recoil from, but they tend to be things like rewriting your brain in a way that causes a permanent loss of agency, or hypnotizing yourself to believe that your child is happy and well when they are in fact starving and would need your help. But for the most part, I operate on a kind of implicit assumption that if something feels great, then that feeling of greatness is something intrinsically valuable itself. My wireheading revulsion only seems to kick in if the thing actually does active damage… and even then, I’m not sure if it’s so much the wireheading aspect that I’m recoiling from, but rather the damage aspect.
Thank you for the explanation.
I think that I’m missing some of the anti-wireheading genes; not that there wouldn’t exist behaviors that I’d classify as wireheading and recoil from, but they tend to be things like rewriting your brain in a way that causes a permanent loss of agency, or hypnotizing yourself to believe that your child is happy and well when they are in fact starving and would need your help. But for the most part, I operate on a kind of implicit assumption that if something feels great, then that feeling of greatness is something intrinsically valuable itself. My wireheading revulsion only seems to kick in if the thing actually does active damage… and even then, I’m not sure if it’s so much the wireheading aspect that I’m recoiling from, but rather the damage aspect.