Grant comments on True Ending: Sacrificial Fire (7/8) - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 February 2009 10:57AM

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Comment author: Grant 05 February 2009 09:55:09PM 0 points [-]

Kaj,

I'm not entirely sure how "they are offended by helpless victims being forced to suffer against their will and want to remove that" translates into "the SHs aren't nice in any sense of the word".

They aren't offended by suffering, but the expression of it. They don't even understand human brains, and can't exchange experiences with them via sex, so how could they? Maybe the SHs are able to survive and thrive without processing certain stimuli as being undesirable, but they never made an argument that humans could.