Probably the difference is in the angle of slope of the availability of the drug. For a person who never injected anything in his system (like me), going to the “right part of the city” is frightful experience which I would hopely never do. It is very hard step. But not the same with overeating or internet-addiction, where entrance is very easy.
“once monitoring equipment detects a problem you can simply shut off the intervention”
Look on the Facebook addiction—did the Facebook ever shutdown anyone because he spent too long on their site and was procrastinated at work? Some people block FB on their computers voluntary, but they still lurk through proxies—it is not easy to block something harmful but addictive.
Anyway, I understand your desire to “good wireheading” which will end sufferings and will not hinder productivity, and some AI controlled brain stimulation may be such a system. But if it is not controlled by advanced AI, but by just a few parameters regulation, a person could easily unwillingly touch a region of the brain (and utility function) from which he will become instantly severely addicted.
Probably the difference is in the angle of slope of the availability of the drug. For a person who never injected anything in his system (like me), going to the “right part of the city” is frightful experience which I would hopely never do. It is very hard step. But not the same with overeating or internet-addiction, where entrance is very easy.
“once monitoring equipment detects a problem you can simply shut off the intervention”
Look on the Facebook addiction—did the Facebook ever shutdown anyone because he spent too long on their site and was procrastinated at work? Some people block FB on their computers voluntary, but they still lurk through proxies—it is not easy to block something harmful but addictive.
Anyway, I understand your desire to “good wireheading” which will end sufferings and will not hinder productivity, and some AI controlled brain stimulation may be such a system. But if it is not controlled by advanced AI, but by just a few parameters regulation, a person could easily unwillingly touch a region of the brain (and utility function) from which he will become instantly severely addicted.