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Experience Machine
One definition of hedonism is the pursuit of pleasure over all other priorities, the assumption being that pleasure directly feeds our sense of happiness and fulfillment, and is thus the most vital outcome we can pursue. The philosophy of Hedonism is of course much richer than that succinct definition implies, exploring angles of pleasure that might not be immediately obvious, like the distinctions between short-term, temporal pleasure and what’s generally considered to be richer, higher-order flavors of the same (like “
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