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    He’s such a crazy hippie. Everyone knows that.Jordan Peterson says you should try to reduce pain. I agree with him. Pain...
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    One type of suffering is the distress of failing to achieve goals. If you remove that type of suffering, is it still...
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  7. mitigatedchaos said: chronic pain doesn’t require inflammation, I would think, just sufficient damage to some part of the body.
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  10. mitigatedchaos reblogged this from slartibartfastibast and added:
    Okay, but major depression and chronic pain are probably both pretty worthless, as compared to, say, the feelings of...
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  12. youzicha said: Where does Yudkowsky say that humans need suffering? The only thing I can think about is the humans in Three Worlds Collide, but I don’t think those are meant as an author-standin.
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    I think abolishing suffering kind of includes “abolish need for manual labor” as a sub-point… Just a slight...
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    The sensation of physical pain. I asked wirehead actually but that was a rhetorical question so I will answer.Pain is...
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    FWIW (and sorry to engage with by far the least interesting part of your post) sadness from IO isn’t suffering in...
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    Sadness is a little different than the others in that you need to be able to feel negative feelings. You can’t just deny...
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