MugaSofer comments on Morality is Awesome - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MugaSofer 08 January 2013 06:09:55PM -2 points [-]

... why? Humans definitely appear to want to avoid pain and enjoy pleasure. i suppose I can see pleasure being replaced with "better" emotions, but I'm really baffled regarding the pain. Is it to do with punishment? Challenge? Something I haven't thought of?

Comment author: Armok_GoB 08 January 2013 07:09:04PM 0 points [-]

Agreed, pretty much. I said significant probability, not big. I'm not good at translating anticipations into numbers, but no more than 5%. Mostly based on extreme outside view, as in "something I haven't thought of".

Comment author: MugaSofer 09 January 2013 09:52:33AM *  -1 points [-]

Oh, right. "Significance" is subjective, I guess. I assumed it meant, I don't know, >10% or whatever.