AlephNeil comments on A Thought Experiment on Pain as a Moral Disvalue - Less Wrong
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No.
I have, but not in a convenient form. I'll just paste some stuff into this comment box:
[i.e. "don't take the following too seriously."]
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I'm not sure, but it's vaguely Nietzschean. For instance, here's a quote from Thus Spoke Zarathustra:
Actually, that one quote doesn't really suffice, but if you're interested, please read sections 4 and 5 of "Zarathustra's Prologue".
What about Eliezer's position, which you don't seem to address, that happiness is just one value among many? Why jump to the (again, highly counterintuitive) conclusion that happiness is not a value at all?