Peter and Valentine: Dopamine Tubes

Peter: Hey Val, I’ve been thinking about this hypothetical. Imagine you were given the option to use a dopamine tube. For the rest of your natural life, you’d sit in a container where you were injected with drugs that would make you feel the highest dopamine-induced pleasure you could possibly feel, maybe simulating your life as it is now, but better. You could even construct a whole bunch of these dopamine tubes for a whole community.

Valentine: That sounds a lot like the experience machine thought experiment, but sure.