It reminds me of the article on Ugh Fields. Though that doesn’t exactly say that ‘psychological pain is unimportant’, but more that ‘psychological pain is based on unreliable emotions, intuitions, and heuristics, and isn’t by itself a good reason not to do something’.
I haven’t encountered the rationalist ethic of “psychological pain is unimportant”. Can you link to it?
It reminds me of the article on Ugh Fields. Though that doesn’t exactly say that ‘psychological pain is unimportant’, but more that ‘psychological pain is based on unreliable emotions, intuitions, and heuristics, and isn’t by itself a good reason not to do something’.