thomblake comments on Suffering as attention-allocational conflict - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 04 April 2012 09:30:28PM 0 points [-]

It sounds like you're using the word "suffering" to mean something like "really extreme pain/discomfort". This is especially apparent where you seem to equate pain and suffering in the last sentence.

That isn't what suffering means. Suffering does not need to be linked to extremes of pain and discomfort. If the word is used in that sense sometimes, just be aware that it is not being used that way in this post, or in most academic discourse about suffering.