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The quickest way to minimize suffering is to nuke the Middle East into a sea of glass with the nukes spaced such that every person is vaporized instantly without feeling a thing. As they feel nothing from their instant vaporization, they are no longer suffering and no longer are capable of suffering or causing suffering.
Somehow I don't see this as a viable solution.
Why not double down when you're already so far in and just nuke the whole world?
EDIT: I want to point out, just in case Poe's law kicks in, that this was not a serious suggestion.
While that's not strictly in the utility function, it'd be important to eliminate all things capable of A) suffering and B) traveling into the Middle East, or to eliminate the Middle East itself (physically or politically).
Better just destroy everything in the lightcone to be sure.
I concur.
You can't make that decision. You're just a grunt. No offense.