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Re:I wish GPT4 had never happened by nullsense on Sunday April 09, 2023 @02:46AM (#35500546)
I'm OK with accepting a certain amount of it. It's a thing. Is there a configuration under which there is no misery? What's the minimum possible amount of misery we could hope to achieve? My problem is that when people's thinking tends to go along the lines of "misery is bad therefore we must eliminate all of it" they come to conclusions that are counterproductive because they're trying to break the laws of physics.
Re:I wish GPT4 had never happened by zamnos on Sunday April 09, 2023 @03:16PM (#35505557)
If I came to a ludicrous conclusion, like we should eat babies because that would reduce misery, then attack that ludicrous conclusion. But being pro-misery because some people make bad conclusions from being against misery is, well, ludicrous.
Re:I wish GPT4 had never happened by nullsense on Sunday April 09, 2023 @04:18PM (#35506080)
>But being pro-misery because some people make bad conclusions from being against misery is, well, ludicrous

Well, it's not obvious that it is, and you haven't made an actual argument here.

Re:I wish GPT4 had never happened by imtringued on Monday April 10, 2023 @04:57AM (#35510426)
You mean like the longtermists who assume the vast majority of people will live inside a computer simulation?