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Comment author: nawitus 26 January 2010 08:04:56AM 6 points [-]

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.

Comment author: CannibalSmith 26 January 2010 10:05:23AM 12 points [-]

Boring from the perspective of any onlookers not the wirehead.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 27 January 2010 10:54:50AM 1 point [-]

Related post: In Praise of Boredom.

Comment author: RobinZ 26 January 2010 12:51:59PM 1 point [-]

I think people shy away from wireheading because a future full of wireheads would be very boring indeed.

It falls below Reedspacer's lower bound, for sure.

Comment author: timtyler 26 January 2010 10:17:42AM 1 point [-]

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.

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