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RichardKennaway comments on Why No Wireheading? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 19 June 2011 04:28:10PM 4 points [-]

Pretty much the whole entertainment industry could be called wireheading lite.

Absolutely. Sudoku has been described as "a denial of service attack on human intellect", and see also the seventh quote here.