Tiiba comments on Pain - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tiiba 03 August 2009 12:43:04AM 0 points [-]

Goals are for achieving. If a high-priority goal is hard to satisfy, my utility function returns a low number.

My answer to the main question: pain does an important job, but there are better ways to do it. Heck, pain can even hinder the goal of getting out of pain, it's so bad.