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I guess it's hard for me to understand this because I view myself immune to mental health harms as a result of horrifying stimuli that I know to be fictional. Even if it's not fictional, the bulk of my emotions will remain unrecruited unless something I care about is being threatened.
It would take quite a lot cash for me to risk an actual threat to my mental health...like being chronically pumped with LSD for a week, or getting a concussion, or having a variable beeping noise interrupt me every few seconds. But an AI box game would fall on a boring-stimulating spectrum, not a mental damage one.
What if another human's happiness was on the line? After you've given a response to that question, qbrf lbhe bcvavba nobhg gur zbarl dhrfgvba punatr vs V cbvag bhg gung lbh pna qbangr vg naq fvtavsvpnagyl rnfr fbzrbar'f fhssrevat? Fnzr zbargnel nzbhag.
Am am quite possible to flood myself with happiness. I do not need LSD for that. And I assume that it can be as addictive. I assume that I am as able to flood myself with sadness and dread. And I fear the consequences. Thus taking LSD or doing the AI box experiment are not that differnt for me. As I said that is my weak spot.
I thought that the answer to the 'other person' question is implied by my post. I'll bear a lot if other people esp. those I care for are suffering. After rot13 I better understand your question. You seem to imply that if I bear the AI experiment some funding will go to suffering people. Trading suffering in a utilitarian sense. Interesting. No. That does seem to weigh up.