Dorikka comments on A Thought Experiment on Pain as a Moral Disvalue - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dorikka 11 March 2011 09:19:07PM 0 points [-]

I would remove the word 'strong' because at what point a negative reinforcement would become 'strong' is in my mind arbitrary. I see pain intensity as a continuum reaching from insignificant to very intense, so I don't think we need an arbitrary notion of 'strong.'