WTF Is Going On?

Would you climb into a pleasure machine with Mark Zuckerberg?

The Facebook billionaire has just made himself leader and grand master of an alternate universe called Meta, where happiness is on tap

14 November 2021 - 00:00

Have you ever played with the pleasure machine? And no, get your head out of the gutter — I am not referring to some kind of  super sexy sexbot. The pleasure machine is a thought experiment proposed by  philosopher Robert Nozick in his book Anarchy, State and Utopia...

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