I don't remember the post's title for a quote, but I believe that in Yudkowsky's value theory sequence, he wrote that [most] humans value both subjective experience, and the correspondence of that subjective experience to an external reality.
If you had to choose only one (or none) to lock-in for eternity, which would you choose?
- Subjective experience/qualia; either (a) the most positive-valenced qualia there is to experience, or (b) a variety of different qualia.
- Everything else. Life would cease to experience qualia, but apart from the that the world would become as you believe would be most valuable.
- Nothingness. Life disappears from the universe, and never returns.
I wonder under what conditions people would choose Nothingness?
Non-existence is the goal of both Buddhists and antinatalists.