Psychohistorian comments on Pain - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Armok_GoB 11 March 2011 01:25:33PM 0 points [-]

Most people don't enjoy pain, in those people, it causes suffering. With near certainty, suffering decreases the utility of the universe according to the coherent extrapolated volition of humanity.

Torturing masochists is perfectly fine as far as I can tell, in fact, better than fine.