It would be kind-of surprising if the capabilities to create pleasure and suffering were very asymmetrical. Carl has written a little around this general topic—Are pain and pleasure equally energy-efficient?
We tend to do things we want, not things we don’t want. And entropy tends to increase, not decrease. I would be very surprised if these were uncorrelated; in other words, I would expect doing what we want to overall increase entropy more than doing what we don’t want.
(Obviously, doing what we want decreases entropy in a particular area; but it does this by increasing overall entropy more.)
It would be kind-of surprising if the capabilities to create pleasure and suffering were very asymmetrical. Carl has written a little around this general topic—Are pain and pleasure equally energy-efficient?
We tend to do things we want, not things we don’t want. And entropy tends to increase, not decrease. I would be very surprised if these were uncorrelated; in other words, I would expect doing what we want to overall increase entropy more than doing what we don’t want.
(Obviously, doing what we want decreases entropy in a particular area; but it does this by increasing overall entropy more.)