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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.