I give a decent probability to the optimal order of things containing absolutely zero pleasure. I assign a lower, but still significant, probability to it containing an infinite amount of pain in any given subjective interval.
… why? Humans definitely appear to want to avoid pain and enjoy pleasure. i suppose I can see pleasure being replaced with “better” emotions, but I’m really baffled regarding the pain. Is it to do with punishment? Challenge? Something I haven’t thought of?
Agreed, pretty much. I said significant probability, not big. I’m not good at translating anticipations into numbers, but no more than 5%. Mostly based on extreme outside view, as in “something I haven’t thought of”.
Humans are not perfect reasoners.
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I give a decent probability to the optimal order of things containing absolutely zero pleasure. I assign a lower, but still significant, probability to it containing an infinite amount of pain in any given subjective interval.
Is this intended as a reply to my comment?
reply to the entire thread really.
Fair enough.
Is this intended as a reply to my comment?
… why? Humans definitely appear to want to avoid pain and enjoy pleasure. i suppose I can see pleasure being replaced with “better” emotions, but I’m really baffled regarding the pain. Is it to do with punishment? Challenge? Something I haven’t thought of?
Agreed, pretty much. I said significant probability, not big. I’m not good at translating anticipations into numbers, but no more than 5%. Mostly based on extreme outside view, as in “something I haven’t thought of”.
Oh, right. “Significance” is subjective, I guess. I assumed it meant, I don’t know, >10% or whatever.