In the agonizing process of reading all the Yudkowsky Less Wrong articles, this is the first one I have had any disagreement with whatsoever.

This is coming from a person who was actually convinced by the biased and obsolete 1997 singularity essay by Yudkowsky.

Only, it's not so much a disagreement as it is a value differential. I don't care the processes by which one achieves happiness. The end results are what matter, and I'll be damned if I accept having one less hedon or one less utilon out there because of a perceived value in working toward them rather than automatically gaining them. It sounds to me like expecting victims of depression to work through it and experience the joy of overcoming depression, instead of, say, our hypothetical pill that just cures their depression. It is a sadness that nothing like that exists.

At the risk of (further) lowering my own status, I'll also say that I really really really do wish the "do anything" Star Trek Holodecks were here. Now, it might matter to me that simulated oral sex is not from a real person who made that decision on her evolution-based human terms, but that is another matter of utilons.

Edited to add: perhaps worth noting is that I would have accepted the deal given by the Superhappies in Three Worlds Collide, though I might have tried to argue that the "having humans eat babies as well" thing is not necessary, even knowing I probably would not succeed.