wirehead

The IQ divide leads to the brink of civil war between resentful normals and the artificially enhanced "wirehead" class of geniuses.

Eyebeam reBlog 2010

A month later, the lone wirehead killed himself after the rain shorted the last of the robots.

365 tomorrows » Sam Clough : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

This, of course, leads directly to the droud/wirehead problem...

Making Light: What future we were making 2010

It seems that he has died of wirehead overdose, but Gil doesn't believe it and checks it out.

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Supernatural Sleuths - Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh Blue Tyson 2008

It seems that he has died of wirehead overdose, but Gil doesn't believe it and check sit out.

Superhero Prose Fiction: Unique - Supermen Blue Tyson 2008

A month later, the lone wirehead killed himself after the rain shorted the last of the robots.

365 tomorrows » 2008 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008

But no, the pure egocentric joy of a wirehead hardly matched Charlotte's egocentric misery.

Minnesota Menage Jack Swenson 2010

It seems that he has died of wirehead overdose, but Gil doesn't believe it and checks it out.

Archive 2007-10-01 Blue Tyson 2007

It seems that he has died of wirehead overdose, but Gil doesn't believe it and check sit out.

Archive 2008-01-01 Blue Tyson 2008

Publisher and cyber-gadfly Tim O'Reilly, who co-organized the conference, explains that the new Web will let us "rip, mix and burn" Web content with the same abandon that wirehead hipsters have applied to digital music.

FAREWELL, WEB 1.0! WE HARDLY KNEW YE. 2007

From Larry Niven’s 1969 story “Death by Ecstasy”, where the word “wirehead” is first coined, through Spider Robinson’s 1982 Mindkiller, the tagline of which is “Pleasure — it’s the only way to die”.

Drugs, robots and the pursuit of pleasure – why experts are worried about AIs becoming addicts Anders Sandberg 2022