If you’re reply is that you get more pleasure this way, why not cut out the middleman and go directly to wire heading?
This is why the noncentral fallacy really deserves the title of the Worst Argument In The World. If [abortion], why not [murdering retarded people]? If [taxation], why not [slavery]?
(Also, “YOUR/YOU’RE”! What the hell’s up with that, I don’t understand how native English speakers can confuse those at all, never mind so frequently.)
(Also, “YOUR/YOU’RE”! What the hell’s up with that, I don’t understand how native English speakers can confuse those at all, never mind so frequently.)
I tend to assume that it’s a typo when I see someone confuse them, unless that person makes lots of other similar errors.
What the hell’s up with that, I don’t understand how native English speakers can confuse those at all, never mind so frequently.
In most present-day accents of English they’re homophones, and it’s not uncommon for people to accidentally mixing homophones up when typing quickly in a language they hear on a daily base. (When I went to Ireland, the frequency at which I made such brain farts in English increased by an order of magnitude within a few weeks.) OTOH, personally most of the times I realize that I’ve accidentally typed the wrong word within seconds of typing it, and much of the rest of the time I catch it while proof-reading myself.
This is not the noncentral fallacy. This is me pointing out that the hypothetical argument I’m responding to proves too much.
Basically the problem with arguments of the form doing X gives pleasure therefore we should do more X, is that the same argument applies to wireheading. If you have no better reply than wireheading seems ewe and X doesn’t, keep in mind that your intuitions about what is ewe change depending on what you do.
This is why the noncentral fallacy really deserves the title of the Worst Argument In The World. If [abortion], why not [murdering retarded people]? If [taxation], why not [slavery]?
(Also, “YOUR/YOU’RE”! What the hell’s up with that, I don’t understand how native English speakers can confuse those at all, never mind so frequently.)
I tend to assume that it’s a typo when I see someone confuse them, unless that person makes lots of other similar errors.
In most present-day accents of English they’re homophones, and it’s not uncommon for people to accidentally mixing homophones up when typing quickly in a language they hear on a daily base. (When I went to Ireland, the frequency at which I made such brain farts in English increased by an order of magnitude within a few weeks.) OTOH, personally most of the times I realize that I’ve accidentally typed the wrong word within seconds of typing it, and much of the rest of the time I catch it while proof-reading myself.
This is not the noncentral fallacy. This is me pointing out that the hypothetical argument I’m responding to proves too much.
Basically the problem with arguments of the form doing X gives pleasure therefore we should do more X, is that the same argument applies to wireheading. If you have no better reply than wireheading seems ewe and X doesn’t, keep in mind that your intuitions about what is ewe change depending on what you do.