drethelin comments on CEV: a utilitarian critique - Less Wrong

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Comment author: drethelin 27 January 2013 10:19:53AM 1 point [-]

I'm not strongly emotionally motivated to reduce suffering in general but I realize that my and other instances of suffering are examples of suffering in general so I think it's a good policy to try to reduce world-suck. This is reasonably approximated by saying I would like to reduce unhappiness or increase happiness or some such thing.

Comment author: Adriano_Mannino 28 January 2013 01:16:27PM *  1 point [-]

What is it that you are strongly motivated to do in this world, then? Are you strongly motivated to reduce/prevent drethelin_tomorrow's suffering, for instance?