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I don't see why not. Spicy foods inflict pain; wanting to develop a greater tolerance for cayenne pepper wouldn't be all that weird. Mountain Dew inflicts pain; learning to put up with that would be instrumentally useful to me. I'd prefer that it just not inflict pain, but assuming that's not an option, I'd be okay with just developing the ability to deal with it.
Agreed, what I said wasn't literally true. If you get 2 utils from caffeine and -1 util from pain, and if despite this you don't want to drink MD, then it's rational to self-modify to want to drink MD. But the point I meant to make is that it's not rational to self-modify to assign 0 utils to the same pain instead (because you don't care about utils, you care about things using utils), which is what I (mis)interpreted conchis as saying.