There is never native ultimate bedrock with human minds that has any clarity to it. Concepts for how people think are mostly about cognitive technology that someone might happen to implement in their thinking, they become more reliably descriptive only at that point. All sorts of preferences and especially personal pursuits are possible, without a clear/principled reason they develop. The abstract arguments I’m gesturing at amplify/focus a vague attitude of “suffering is bad”, which is not rare and doesn’t require any particular circumstances to form, into actionable recommendations.
There is never native ultimate bedrock with human minds that has any clarity to it. Concepts for how people think are mostly about cognitive technology that someone might happen to implement in their thinking, they become more reliably descriptive only at that point. All sorts of preferences and especially personal pursuits are possible, without a clear/principled reason they develop. The abstract arguments I’m gesturing at amplify/focus a vague attitude of “suffering is bad”, which is not rare and doesn’t require any particular circumstances to form, into actionable recommendations.