wirehead
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wirehead (plural wireheads)
- (science fiction) A person who has an electronic brain implant.
- 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 385:
- 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.
- (science fiction) A person who takes part in wireheading.
- (computing, loosely) A hardware hacker.
- (loosely) A person who likes to tinker with electronics.
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Verb
wirehead (third-person singular simple present wireheads, present participle wireheading, simple past and past participle wireheaded)
- (science fiction) To artificially stimulate the brain to experience pleasure.
- (artificial intelligence) To hack one's own reward channel.
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Wirehead (science fiction) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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