Thread: Question about the Wirehead Problem in literature (and an eBook giveaway!)

(Edit: the giveaway referred to in the title has finished.)

Some of you will be familiar with the "wirehead problem" in the context of superintelligent machines; for those who aren't, the science blogger Tim Tyler has posted a couple of youtube videos about it. I find this topic very interesting, and I've been trying to find out if it has appeared anywhere in science fiction. As far as I'm aware, the only "wireheading" that's been portrayed has involved drugs and the human brain, not advanced machines. Does anyone here know of any instances of it in science fiction, be it in novels or short stories? I'd be surprised if there isn't at least one short story, in Interzone or something.

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AFAIK not only hve there been SF written involving wireheads but the term itself derives from those stories.
Larry Niven's Known Space series (from the 60s and 70s) has numerous references.
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Thanks for the link ...but I'm specifically interested in wireheading on the part of superintelligent AI/machines, for example in defiance of their (inferior) human supervisors.