there will rapidly cease to be humans
What is the problem with that?
To paraphrase Robin Hanson, rationality should exist.
Personally, in terms of utility functions, I'm inclined to give my own suffering positive utility (it's just, y'know, substantially lower than the utility of pleasure). But then, I write poetry on the beauty of the meaningfulness of pain. It's curious what a few years of systematically killing emotion will do to you when it reawakens with a vengeance.
This is the public group instrumental rationality diary for April 5-14.
Thanks to cata for starting the Group Rationality Diary posts, and to commenters for participating!
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