prase comments on Pain - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Alicorn 02 August 2009 07:12PM

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Comment author: prase 03 August 2009 04:52:15PM 0 points [-]

Does "not having pain" count as an ambition? If so, then probably anything we like or dislike can be described as ambition or goal, and "pain interferes with our goals" reduces to liitle more than "we don't like pain".

Comment author: [deleted] 04 August 2009 02:42:18AM 0 points [-]

Well, "ambition" isn't much of a word for it, seeing as how it isn't very ambitious. But yes, I think that we can generally describe our likes and dislikes as goals, in which case not liking pain very much makes pain interfere with our goals.