From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 13:29:24 MDT
Osher Doctorow wrote:
>
> The whole subject of *pleasure* is in my opinion one of the key signs that
> one is dealing with an ultra-materialist when the latter advocates it. In
> my younger days, I spent years arguing with a communist sympathizer woman
> who was obsessed with the *pleasure* of sex and viewed communism as
> establishing total achievement of pleasures and elimination of *artificial
> capitalist inhibitions*. The argument is almost identical when it is
> advocated by the *other side*, the hedonist capitalists.
I don't know that I would be quite so quick to throw pleasure out the
window. I just think that it should be more complicated.
http://sysopmind.com/essays/funtheory.html
Of course in the special case of living on pre-Singularity Earth the
equation changes dramatically.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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