It’s a particular sort of confused person who starts out trying to identify and quantify suffering far more precisely than they can define and detect pleasure/joy.
Under what conditions would an entity prefer to suffer for future purposes vs ceasing to exist? So far, we have mostly positive examples. Identifying why this is, in order to make more of it, seems more fruitful than identifying suffering to remove it.
It’s a particular sort of confused person who starts out trying to identify and quantify suffering far more precisely than they can define and detect pleasure/joy.
Under what conditions would an entity prefer to suffer for future purposes vs ceasing to exist? So far, we have mostly positive examples. Identifying why this is, in order to make more of it, seems more fruitful than identifying suffering to remove it.