I think people shy away from wireheading because a future full of wireheads would be very boring indeed. People like to think there’s more to existence than that. They wan’t to experience something more interesting than eternal pleasure. And that’s exactly what an FAI should allow.
Could be more boring. There’s more than one kind of wirehead. For example, if everyone were a heroin addict, the world might be more boring—but it would still be pretty interesting.
I think people shy away from wireheading because a future full of wireheads would be very boring indeed. People like to think there’s more to existence than that. They wan’t to experience something more interesting than eternal pleasure. And that’s exactly what an FAI should allow.
Boring from the perspective of any onlookers not the wirehead.
Related post: In Praise of Boredom.
It falls below Reedspacer’s lower bound, for sure.
Could be more boring. There’s more than one kind of wirehead. For example, if everyone were a heroin addict, the world might be more boring—but it would still be pretty interesting.