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I can't help but always associate discussions of an experience machine (in whatever form it takes) to television. TV was just the alpha version of the experience machine and I hear it's quite popular.
This is more tongue-in-cheek than a serious argument, but I do think that TV shows that people will trade pleasure or even emotional numbness (lack of pain) for authenticity.
In my experience most people don't seem to worry about themselves getting emotionally young, it's mostly far-view think-of-the-children stuff. And I'm pretty sure pleasure is a good thing, so I'm not sure in what sense they're "trading" it (unless you mean they could be having more fun elsewhere?)