army1987 comments on How to Become a 1000 Year Old Vampire - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 03 October 2013 06:30:37AM 2 points [-]

I think a perhaps better tactic is to find the interestingness in otherwise mundane activities.

Down that path wireheading lies.

Comment author: lmm 13 October 2013 09:45:43AM 2 points [-]

I find a future in which we are all steered to skydive and fight revolutions and found companies far more terrifying than wireheading.

Comment author: [deleted] 19 October 2013 06:51:06PM 0 points [-]

Well, I hope we'd both agree that a future in which people who want to want to skydive and fight revolutions and found companies can do so and people who want to want to wirehead can do so is better than either.

Comment author: [deleted] 14 October 2013 05:08:08AM 0 points [-]

I wish there were a term as powerful as wireheading that likewise condemned signaling anti-authoritarianism...

Comment author: katydee 14 October 2013 07:20:40AM 3 points [-]

Perhaps "raging against the machine?"

Comment author: lmm 14 October 2013 11:49:54AM 0 points [-]

I don't understand what you mean. Please clarify