Re: Wireheading—and a short-term increase in pleasure happiness at the cost of a long-term decrease in average pleasure.
Heroin looks good to me—or at least is the best we have—unless a specific medical condition is making you sadder than normal.
You cannot reasonably expect to become a wirehead without your life going up the tubes—resulting in massive stimulation of your pain and unhappiness circuitry—but, by most accounts, heroin remains pretty effective at making all that go away—at least up until near the end. Behaviourally, a heroin addict is effectively indistinguishable from a wirehead.
As Renton said: “Take the best orgasm you ever had, multiply it by a thousand and you’re still nowhere near it.”
Re: Wireheading—and a short-term increase in pleasure happiness at the cost of a long-term decrease in average pleasure.
Heroin looks good to me—or at least is the best we have—unless a specific medical condition is making you sadder than normal.
You cannot reasonably expect to become a wirehead without your life going up the tubes—resulting in massive stimulation of your pain and unhappiness circuitry—but, by most accounts, heroin remains pretty effective at making all that go away—at least up until near the end. Behaviourally, a heroin addict is effectively indistinguishable from a wirehead.
As Renton said: “Take the best orgasm you ever had, multiply it by a thousand and you’re still nowhere near it.”