do you believe it's possible that reality is "bad"? As in, if you somehow became aware of any truth, no false beliefs, is it possible that the final resting state is a "bad" one?
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I mean obviously yes, if you have any values at all and sufficient imagination you can imagine a reality underlying our visible circumstances that is terrible
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It can be either bad or good, but the end result is usually determined by our social reality, which is quite bad.
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Depends on how you qualify "good" and "bad."
These are human concepts. If you become aware of 'all truth,' how moored do you remain to human conceptions of good and bad?
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"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
-Shakespeare
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I don't understand what that means. I'm guessing the current reality is better for humans than the median of some loosely defined set of counterfactuals... what did you actually mean?
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Good & bad are not abstract, social, or cognitive constructs, they are values by which we judge outcomes relevant to us. If something ends or diminishes us, it is bad, if something helps us thrive it is good. Generalize to reality, & our evolution kind of proves that it is good.
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What planet are people living on? I don't see how the answer to this could be anything other than yes.
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You mean like slowly rotting away while all your friends and family die around you? Or like watching people senselessly die overseas and being powerless to stop it happen? In human ethical constructs those things are bad, but outside those they are just 'things happening'
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