Eating pizza (or any other high-energy food that you happen to like) is intrinsically rewarding.
For what value of ‘intrinsically’? It sure isn’t rewarding for a paperclip maximizer, and IIUC you seem to be implying that doing drugs isn’t intrinsically rewarding for non-addicted people.
Do I have to specify that I was talking about humans?
IIUC you seem to be implying that doing drugs isn’t intrinsically rewarding for non-addicted people.
Non-addicted people generally understand that addictive drugs like heroin or cocaine can give them short-term rewards but potentially hamper the satisfaction of their long-term preferences, hence they assign a negative expected utility to them. On the other hand, eating pizza in moderate amounts is consistent with the satisfaction of long-term preferences.
I’m not quite sure about this; there are certainly humans who find pizza inedible for cultural reasons. I suppose you could argue that the composition of pizza is such that it would appeal to a hypothetical “unbiased” human, but that might still be problematic.
(I was going to say ‘then so is alcohol’ (specifically, the feeling of being tipsy), then I remembered of this claim and realized I was probably about to commit the typical mind fallacy.)
For what value of ‘intrinsically’? It sure isn’t rewarding for a paperclip maximizer, and IIUC you seem to be implying that doing drugs isn’t intrinsically rewarding for non-addicted people.
Do I have to specify that I was talking about humans?
Non-addicted people generally understand that addictive drugs like heroin or cocaine can give them short-term rewards but potentially hamper the satisfaction of their long-term preferences, hence they assign a negative expected utility to them.
On the other hand, eating pizza in moderate amounts is consistent with the satisfaction of long-term preferences.
I think for the value of “biologically hardwired into humans”.
I’m not quite sure about this; there are certainly humans who find pizza inedible for cultural reasons. I suppose you could argue that the composition of pizza is such that it would appeal to a hypothetical “unbiased” human, but that might still be problematic.
I think the argument is really for “any … high-energy food that you happen to like”, not for culture-specific things like pizza.
(I was going to say ‘then so is alcohol’ (specifically, the feeling of being tipsy), then I remembered of this claim and realized I was probably about to commit the typical mind fallacy.)