I think it’s extremely rare to have an asymmetric distribution towards thinking the best happiness is better in expectation.
In a survey from SSC I counted ~10% of answers that preferred <50% probability of heaven vs hell to certainty of oblivion. 10% is not “extremely rare”.
Whoa, I didn’t know about this survey, pretty cool! Interesting results overall.
It’s notable that 6% of people also report they’d prefer absolute certainty of hell over not existing, which seems totally insane from the point of view of my preferences. The 11% that prefer a trillion miserable sentient beings over a million happy sentient beings also seems wild to me. (Those two questions are also relatively more correlated than the other questions.)
In a survey from SSC I counted ~10% of answers that preferred <50% probability of heaven vs hell to certainty of oblivion. 10% is not “extremely rare”.
Whoa, I didn’t know about this survey, pretty cool! Interesting results overall.
It’s notable that 6% of people also report they’d prefer absolute certainty of hell over not existing, which seems totally insane from the point of view of my preferences. The 11% that prefer a trillion miserable sentient beings over a million happy sentient beings also seems wild to me. (Those two questions are also relatively more correlated than the other questions.)