[extropy-chat] Wireheading

[Anders Sandberg]

Alex Ramonsky wrote:
> If I understand you correctly, how do you prevent eventual downgrading
> of dopaminergic receptors? I used to get a tedious anhedonic period
> after a long creative squawk.

Ah, yes, that could be a problem. Hmm, do you think your anhedonia was due
to dopaminergic receptor changes or just regression towards the mean?

I have the feeling that preventing downregulation or upregulation would be
pretty pharmacologically useful, anybody know how well we have learned to
control such functions?

-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University