You’re excluding the middle. My argument is that, as long as you see pain as having any dis-utility of it’s own, if you are utility-maximizing you will adjust the sense of pain to be less strong than outside agent which sees pain as not having any dis-utility of it’s own, but merely as a strategic value for improving fitness of some kind.
You’re excluding the middle. My argument is that, as long as you see pain as having any dis-utility of it’s own, if you are utility-maximizing you will adjust the sense of pain to be less strong than outside agent which sees pain as not having any dis-utility of it’s own, but merely as a strategic value for improving fitness of some kind.
So: it’s important not to do that. If you value pain avoidance intrinisically, that way lies wireheading.