My terminal value is my own happiness. I know that it exists because I have experienced it, and experience it regularly. I can’t imagine a world in which someone convinces me that I don’t experience something that I experience.
“Happiness” as a concept sounds simple in the same way “a witch did it” sounds simple as an explanation. Most people consider wireheading to be a failure state, and defining “happiness” so as to avoid wireheading is not simple.
Happiness as a feeling is simple, though it may be caused by complex things. If wireheading would make me happy—that is, give me the best possible enjoyable feeling in the world—I’d wirehead. I don’t consider that a failure state.
My terminal value is my own happiness. I know that it exists because I have experienced it, and experience it regularly. I can’t imagine a world in which someone convinces me that I don’t experience something that I experience.
“Happiness” as a concept sounds simple in the same way “a witch did it” sounds simple as an explanation. Most people consider wireheading to be a failure state, and defining “happiness” so as to avoid wireheading is not simple.
Happiness as a feeling is simple, though it may be caused by complex things. If wireheading would make me happy—that is, give me the best possible enjoyable feeling in the world—I’d wirehead. I don’t consider that a failure state.