Can wireheading cause real pleasure | Anders Sandberg
Philosophy For Our Times
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What's Wrong With Sufficient Pleasure?
In many of his novels, they take place in shared universe, larry nivon brings up the concept that you can do brain stimulation and it's supremely addective. And maybe it's actually all right if some people are sitting around not doing very much, because, well, they wouldn't have been that productive anyway. Maybe it's visis best. There are other concerns,. but you might get side effects of stimulating the wrong part of the brain of wrong kind of people like michael cricton's terminal man.
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