153 – Values and Wireheading with Wes Fenza

We beef with Wes over how important values may or may not be, and why Wireheading is awesome and/or evil.

Wes is the head of The Mind Killer podcast!

7:23  –  LW Posts discussion begins

53:39  –  Main Topic begins

2:01:40  –  Thank the Patron

We also discuss Not Everthing Is a Clue

and Aladdin

The quokka



Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?





Also merch!



Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast



LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:





The Hidden Complexity of Wishes (audio version here, courtesy of ywecur!)

Lost Purposes

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

Purpose and Pragmatism

The Affect Heuristic