In order for this to be true, it would have to be sustainable enough that the pleasure gain outweighs the potential pleasure loss from a possibly longer life without wireheading/experience machine.
For utilitarians, externalities of one person’s wireheading affecting other lives would have to be considered as well.
Hedons are not utilons. If they were, wireheading (or entering the experience machine) would be utility-maximizing.
Oh. Right.
In order for this to be true, it would have to be sustainable enough that the pleasure gain outweighs the potential pleasure loss from a possibly longer life without wireheading/experience machine.
For utilitarians, externalities of one person’s wireheading affecting other lives would have to be considered as well.