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"Now that I realize feeling infinitely happy is impossible, I don't think God can give me more happiness than an experience machine. So I’m going to maximize my expected utility by striving to help create a utopia. "

I don't this works. You can't be sure the experience of infinite happiness is impossible. And even if you were you could experience infinite happiness units as long as time continued eternally which is a standard feature of Christianity and Islam. Eternity also implies that God can beat experience machine because the heat death of the universe should probably wreck the machine but not be an issue for an omnipotent God.

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