There’s a wide variance in how “suffering” is perceived, weighted, and (dis)valued, and no known resolution to different intuitions about it.
There’s no real agreement on what S-risks even are, and whether they’re anything but a tiny subset of other X-risks.
Many people care less about (others) suffering than they do about positive-valence experience (of others). This may or may not be related to the fact that suffering is generally low-status and satisfaction/meaning is high-status.
There’s a wide variance in how “suffering” is perceived, weighted, and (dis)valued, and no known resolution to different intuitions about it.
There’s no real agreement on what S-risks even are, and whether they’re anything but a tiny subset of other X-risks.
Many people care less about (others) suffering than they do about positive-valence experience (of others). This may or may not be related to the fact that suffering is generally low-status and satisfaction/meaning is high-status.