“achieving happiness by anything other than [subgoals of] reproduction” is wireheading from the perspective of my genes, and if they want to object I’m not stopping them. Happiness via drugs is wireheading from the perspective of me, and I object myself.
What if there’s double rainbow ? What if you have lower than ‘normal’ level of some neurotransmitter and under-appreciate the double rainbow without drugs? What if higher than ‘normal’?
I’m not advocating drugs, by the way, just pointing out the difficulty in making any binary distinction here. The natural happy should be preferred to wire-headed happy, but the society does think that some people should take anti-depressants. If you are to labour in the name of the utility monster anyway, you could as well be happy. You object to happiness via drug as substitute for happiness without drugs, but if the happiness without drugs is not going to happen—then what?
“achieving happiness by anything other than [subgoals of] reproduction” is wireheading from the perspective of my genes, and if they want to object I’m not stopping them. Happiness via drugs is wireheading from the perspective of me, and I object myself.
What if there’s double rainbow ? What if you have lower than ‘normal’ level of some neurotransmitter and under-appreciate the double rainbow without drugs? What if higher than ‘normal’?
I’m not advocating drugs, by the way, just pointing out the difficulty in making any binary distinction here. The natural happy should be preferred to wire-headed happy, but the society does think that some people should take anti-depressants. If you are to labour in the name of the utility monster anyway, you could as well be happy. You object to happiness via drug as substitute for happiness without drugs, but if the happiness without drugs is not going to happen—then what?