Doug_S. comments on Qualitative Strategies of Friendliness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Doug_S. 31 August 2008 05:04:04AM 0 points [-]

Does anyone know how, in the real world of today, one can modify one's brain to experience more pleasure? Current drugs either just plain don't work very well (Prozac, etc.) or result in a short-term increase in pleasure happiness at the cost of a long-term decrease in average pleasure (cocaine, heroin, etc.). Electric brain stimulation seems like it's less likely to lead to tolerance effects, but it's very difficult to find a surgeon willing to implant electrodes into one's brain or spinal cord because you want to wirehead yourself (and it doesn't seem to be as effective in humans as in rats, for whatever reason).