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2 Post author: scarcegreengrass 20 September 2016 02:59AM

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Comment author: James_Miller 20 September 2016 03:52:21AM *  4 points [-]

"A Disneyland with no children" apocalypse where optimization competition eliminates any pleasure we get from life.

A hell apocalypse where a large numbers of sentient lifeforms are condemned to very long term suffering possibly in a computer simulation.

Comment author: scarcegreengrass 20 September 2016 01:44:56PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, i was thinking about the latter (like Pascal's Mugging) but i think it might be too exotic to fit into a linear scale.