What’s wrong with wireheading? Seriously. Heroin is harmful for numerous health and societal reasons, but if we solve those problems with wireheading, I don’t see the problem with large portions of humanity choosing ultimate pleasure forever.
We could also make some workarounds: for instance, timed wireheading, where you wirehead for a year and then set your brain to disable wireheading for another year, or a more sophisticated Fun Theory based version of wireheading that allows for slightly more complex pleasures.
What’s wrong with wireheading? Seriously. Heroin is harmful for numerous health and societal reasons, but if we solve those problems with wireheading, I don’t see the problem with large portions of humanity choosing ultimate pleasure forever.
We could also make some workarounds: for instance, timed wireheading, where you wirehead for a year and then set your brain to disable wireheading for another year, or a more sophisticated Fun Theory based version of wireheading that allows for slightly more complex pleasures.
There a difference between people choosing wireheading and a clever AI making that choice for them.