Experience Pill

Still sounds pretty "invasive" and unreal to me…

"In 2018, researchers restaged Robert Nozick's Experience Machine thought experiment… to see if, forty years later, Nozick's findings—that people would reject the Experience Machine because it offered pleasurable experiences that were not "in contact with reality"—still held. 

They discovered that if you replaced Nozick's invasive machine with an Experience Pill that promised a lifetime of pleasurable experiences with no side-effects, people were more likely to say they would take it. The researchers hypothesized (correctly, as it turned out) that "the less invasive an intervention is—the less it severs contact with reality—the more people will be prepared to accept it.""

— The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World by Christine Rosen
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