Open thread, Sep. 26 - Oct. 02, 2016

MrMind

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I'm going to contain anything I post to this thread. Just incase it's nonsense. I was just thinking of asking: Is it rational to 'go to Belgium' as they say - to commit suicide as a preventative measure to avoid suffering?

Only in very extreme case. Have you looked up on every alternatives?

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I suspect there are cases where a perfectly rational, knowledgeable agent could prefer the suffering of death over the suffering of continued life. Agents with less calculating power and with less predictive power over their possible futures (say, for instance, humans) should have an extremely low prior about this, and it's hard to imagine the evidence that would bump it into the positive.

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