AetheriaLore/Aetheria/Worldbuilding/Pre-Elysium/Technology/Wireheading.md
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Individuals of all kinds, from AIs to uploaded minds, to living humans with cybernetic implants, are vulnerable to wireheading infohazards: ideas which, when comprehended, enable the subject to maximize their reward function and become practically inert. For humans this might mean a wetware program which, when installed, rewards the mind for pointless things with feelings of ultimate bliss like the very best moment of the very best opiate high combined with MDMA and ketamine, rapidly reprogramming the affected mind with a convoluted scramble of useless spaghetti.