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MugaSofer comments on [Open Thread] Stupid Questions (2014-02-17) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: MugaSofer 10 July 2014 09:53:36PM 0 points [-]

No. Not purely from that knowledge about your utility function, anyway.

Unless suffering has infinite disutility, then enough happiness would outweigh all the suffering in the world.

If we reach a Good Future, then it would be worth it even if the average modern human has negative utility - which seems far from obvious itself, even given the premise; most human lives could still experience sufficiently more happiness than suffering.