Only if it doesn't distract the person too much from meeting basic life necessities and responsibilities. By construction, wireheading seems to fail this criterion (and _did_ for the original rodents), unless it is inherently limited to brief intervals.
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the black hole presumption is just a part of the usual formulation of the thought experiment (because thought experiments by their nature are about clean distinctions, simple scenarios)
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no idea if it's true or not until large swaths of people start actually doing it
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