Is the reason we don’t wirehead because evolution instilled us with an aversion to manipulating our reward function, which then zero-shot generalized to wireheading, despite wireheading being so wildly dissimilar to the contents of the ancestral environment?
I don’t think so? My guess is that this is mostly about culture and cultural conditioning. Most neuroscientists don’t wirehead themselves because that’s so far from the kind of normal thing that’s normally done. They just don’t see wireheading as “winning the game.”
But I can totally believe that many of them would if they were part of a culture, even a small subculture, that does think of it that way.
A tangent:
I don’t think so? My guess is that this is mostly about culture and cultural conditioning. Most neuroscientists don’t wirehead themselves because that’s so far from the kind of normal thing that’s normally done. They just don’t see wireheading as “winning the game.”
But I can totally believe that many of them would if they were part of a culture, even a small subculture, that does think of it that way.