My take on wire heading is that I precommit to live in the world which is more detailed and complex (vs more pleasant).
For example, online world of Instagram or heroine addiction is more pleasant, but not complex. Painfully navigating maze of life with its ups and downs is complex, but not always pleasant. Living in a “Matrix” might be pleasant, but essentially the details are missed out because the systems that created these details are essentially more detailed and live in a more detailed world.
On the same note, if 99% of the Earth population “uploads”, and most of the fun stuff gonna happen “in the matrix”, most of the complexity gonna exist there. And even if 1% of contrarians stay outside, their lives might not be as interesting and detailed. So “going out of the matrix” would actually be “running away from reality” in that example.
With wire heading it’s a similar thing. From what I know, actually “nirvana” is a more detailed experience where you notice more and where you can observe subconscious processes directly; that’s why they don’t own you and you become free from “suffering”. Nirvana is not total bliss, from what they say (like heroine, I presume).
So yeah I would choose this kind of wire heading that allows me to switch into nirvana. Shinzen Young actually works on research trying to accomplish this even before AGI.
My take on wire heading is that I precommit to live in the world which is more detailed and complex (vs more pleasant).
For example, online world of Instagram or heroine addiction is more pleasant, but not complex. Painfully navigating maze of life with its ups and downs is complex, but not always pleasant. Living in a “Matrix” might be pleasant, but essentially the details are missed out because the systems that created these details are essentially more detailed and live in a more detailed world.
On the same note, if 99% of the Earth population “uploads”, and most of the fun stuff gonna happen “in the matrix”, most of the complexity gonna exist there. And even if 1% of contrarians stay outside, their lives might not be as interesting and detailed. So “going out of the matrix” would actually be “running away from reality” in that example.
With wire heading it’s a similar thing. From what I know, actually “nirvana” is a more detailed experience where you notice more and where you can observe subconscious processes directly; that’s why they don’t own you and you become free from “suffering”. Nirvana is not total bliss, from what they say (like heroine, I presume).
(e.g. see discussion on topic of paradises on Qualia Computing between Andres Gomez and Roger Thisdell: https://qualiacomputing.com/2021/11/23/the-supreme-state-unconsciousness-classical-enlightenment-from-the-point-of-view-of-valence-structuralism/)
So yeah I would choose this kind of wire heading that allows me to switch into nirvana. Shinzen Young actually works on research trying to accomplish this even before AGI.