You are taking wireheading too literally. Wireheaded animals are not actually having fun, but in most discussions of wireheading, we are taking about potential future technologies, and the least convenient possible world usually contains wireheads that are really happy.
You are taking wireheading too literally. Wireheaded animals are not actually having fun, but in most discussions of wireheading, we are taking about potential future technologies, and the least convenient possible world usually contains wireheads that are really happy.
Which is why it’s a side note, rather than the main point I intended to bring to the discussion.