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I think I'm partial to a variant of wireheading that sort of linearly shifts our perception of pain and pleasure. Getting an arm hacked off is like a bad headac
by psyc 9y ago
I think I'm partial to a variant of wireheading that sort of linearly shifts our perception of pain and pleasure. Getting an arm hacked off is like a bad headache, normal undesirable things are like a minor ache, normal day-to-day is like a fun night out, and orgasm is like ... I don't know, heroin I guess.
- toomanybeersies 9y agoI don't know if the human brain could handle that. If you have too many fun nights out, they start to wear. If you take too many drugs, they start to lose the magic, they just become normal. You need the highs with the lows.
- spondyl 9y agoI suppose if we got to that point, you could replace that portion of the brain with cybernetics, save the state before having taken any drugs then every so often, flash it back to the beginning?
- Godel_unicode 9y agoIf you haven't read Peter F Hamilton's Commonwealth saga, you might appreciate it. Memory editing plus effective immortality is an interesting concept.
- djsumdog 9y agoBest expressed by the philosophy of Butters: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/southpark/images/b/b3/A_beautiful_sadness.png/revision/latest?cb=20160402230255 https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/southpark/images/b/b3/A_...