Do you mean “forcibly wirehead people and see if they decide to remove the pleasure feedback”? Also, see this post.
That’s one way to do it, but not the only way, and it may not even be conclusive, because people’s wants and likes aren’t always in agreement. The test is to see whether they’d like it, not whether they’d want it.
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Do you mean “forcibly wirehead people and see if they decide to remove the pleasure feedback”? Also, see this post.
That’s one way to do it, but not the only way, and it may not even be conclusive, because people’s wants and likes aren’t always in agreement. The test is to see whether they’d like it, not whether they’d want it.