Wireheading, jhanas, and neural interfaces
If you give your mouse a lever to stimulate its own reward center — literally with a wire — it will press on the lever repeatedly as much as possible, even at the expense of eating and drinking (and probably be happy doing it ). This was an experiment for wireheading — artificially stimulating the reward center of the brain.
lev.la · writing · March 9, 2024 If you give your mouse a lever to stimulate its own reward center — literally with a wire — it will press on the lever repeatedly as much as possible, even at the expense of eating and drinking (and probably be happy doing it ). This was an experiment for wireheading — artificially stimulating the reward center of the brain. We are closer and closer to the ability of doing that to ourselves. The level of stimuli we currently receive is very far from what the brain evolved for: our food has much more sugar than our ancestors', we can listen to any kind of…
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