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Re:Capitalism is a paperclip maximizer by kaffeemitsahne on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @12:57PM (#10192569)
Why wouldn't you?
Re:Capitalism is a paperclip maximizer by cylinder on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @01:52PM (#10192910)
Replace drugs with machine and we already have such a thing. However the pleasure from drugs is stigmatized and prohibited, and the addiction to the pleasure machine is seen as life destroying.
Re:Capitalism is a paperclip maximizer by sangnoir on Thursday September 10, 2015 @05:40AM (#10197040)
IMO - it's not the pleasure itself that is stigmatized, but the side-effects. Side effects including deteriorating health of the user, as well as the occasional resorting to immoral or even criminal means to feed the habit.

There's also a whole dog-whistle aspect to the 'war on drugs' (e.g. massive differences in sentences on crack vs. cocaine offences)

Re:Capitalism is a paperclip maximizer by karmakaze on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @01:02PM (#10192599)
A game is more fun without the cheat-code.
Re:Capitalism is a paperclip maximizer by olewhalehunter on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @02:59PM (#10193469)
You live life with significantly more "cheat codes" than the rest of the world, now what makes you think you aren't already living with "cheat codes" you aren't aware of? Since you could also program your reality to enjoy the benefits of the "cheat codes" without actually being aware of them, then there's a bit of cosmic irony to your statement.
Re:Capitalism is a paperclip maximizer by karmakaze on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @04:39PM (#10194416)
But what's proposed isn't any cheat-code, it's The cheat-code. I remember playing one of the Dooms once with its god cheat.. for a few minutes.
Re:Capitalism is a paperclip maximizer by bko on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @01:22PM (#10192713)
Because I believe in a greater purpose in life (in the non-religious sense). But that's just me
Re:Capitalism is a paperclip maximizer by eli_gottlieb on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @02:48PM (#10193372)
Because I happen to care about things-in-themselves, and I can have a lot of fun and be very happy with things-in-themselves. Experience machines are the kind of thought experiment invented by people who can't conceive of real life being a nice place to live, and thus constantly want to escape into the un-real.