Uh, plenty of born are born into worse-than-death situations already, at least by our standards, yet they generally make a go of their lives instead of committing suicide. We call many of them our “ancestors.”
Can you elaborate? Your statement seems self-contradictory. By definition, situations “worse than death” would be the ones in which people prefer to kill themselves rather than continue living.
In the context of the original post, I take “worse-than-death” to mean (1) enough misery that a typical person would rather not continue living, and (2) an inability to commit suicide. While I agree many of our ancestors have had a rough time, relatively few of them have had it that hard.
Could you elaborate on this? I’d be curious to hear your reasoning.
Does “don’t put any stock” mean P(x) = 0? 0.01? 1e-10?