Lumifer comments on If you can see the box, you can open the box - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 26 February 2015 05:02:16PM 2 points [-]

A third reason is that "pain" is somewhat ambiguous. Does schadenfreude count?

Comment author: bbleeker 27 February 2015 04:32:47PM 1 point [-]

Yes, yes it does.

Comment author: gjm 26 February 2015 05:31:28PM 1 point [-]

Yes, good point. I kinda just assumed it really meant "suffering" in some generalized sense, rather than anything narrower.