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by collyw 2084 days ago
You could try some ancient Buddhist technology - meditation. A ten day retreat feels very similar to psychedelics but you can function normally.
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On the one hand, it sounds interesting. On the other hand, it sounds like ten days of opportunity cost.

I feel that psychedelics and spending all the time in meditation are just low-tech versions of wireheading.

Practical wireheading does not look achievable anytime near: https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/08/20/wireheading_done_righ...

I'd say that meditation is the best version of wireheading currently known to humanity. I admit that due to obvious problems with measuring happiness, this hypothesis is hard to test.