1: It’s also possible that hedonism/reward hacking is a really common terminal value for inner-misaligned intelligences, including humans (it really could be our terminal value, we’d be too proud to admit it in this phase of history, we wouldn’t know one way or the other), and it’s possible that it doesn’t result in classic lotus eater behavior because sustained pleasure requires protecting, or growing the reward registers of the pleasure experiencer.
1: It’s also possible that hedonism/reward hacking is a really common terminal value for inner-misaligned intelligences, including humans (it really could be our terminal value, we’d be too proud to admit it in this phase of history, we wouldn’t know one way or the other), and it’s possible that it doesn’t result in classic lotus eater behavior because sustained pleasure requires protecting, or growing the reward registers of the pleasure experiencer.