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wirehead en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From wire + -head.

Meanings

1. A person who has an electronic brain implant.
   • He turns around and looks behind him. The wirehead he saw a few seconds ago is out in the open now, standing all by himself at the edge of a raft. Everyone else has cleared out of there. 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 385:
2. A person who takes part in wireheading.
3. (broadly) A hardware hacker.
4. (broadly) A person who likes to tinker with electronics.

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wireheading

wirehead en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (UK) audio

Etymology

From wire + -head.

Meanings

1. To artificially stimulate the brain to experience pleasure.
2. (qualifier:artificial intelligence) To hack one's own reward channel.

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