A thought occurred to me today as I skimmed an article in a rationality forum where the subject of gay marriage cropped up; seeing as the issue has been hotly contested in various public fora and especially the courts, what about poly? After all, many if not all the arguments...
A typical image of the wire-head is that of a guy with his brain connected via a wire thingy to a computer, living in a continuous state of pleasure, sort of like being drugged up for life. What I mean by wireless heading-which is not such an elegant term but...
I came to the idea after a previous lesswrong topic discussing nihilism, and its several comments on depression and suicide. My argument is that wire heading in its extreme or complete/full form can be easily modeled as suicide, or less strongly as volitional intelligence reduction, at least given current human...