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Any such algorithm for detecting suffering in arbitrary Turing machines would seem to run afoul of Turing/Rice; a heuristic algorithm could probably either reject most suffering Turing machines (but is that acceptable enough?) or reject all suffering Turing machines (but does that cripple the agent from a practical standpoint?), and such a heuristic might take more processing power than running the Turing machines in question...