if you’d like to read a gorgeous treatment of this through a blessedly distancing science fiction metaphor, pick up Iain M. Banks’s Against a Dark Background. also has lots of things blowing up
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hey guys i found this cool chart of things that are more important than minimizing sufferingpic.twitter.com/sTOniBXuAk
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Isn't that just a chart of kinds of suffering to eliminate?
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You can only actualize if you've already eliminated all the suffering caused by the lack of things below. Suffocation, starvation... 'my partner died' is part of tier 3.
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right, except if the priority were eliminating suffering then you should just never partner up because then you'll never suffer their loss the most effective and reliable way to minimize suffering is to eliminate sentient life, which is how we get antinatalism
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That’s why it’s not about minimising suffering it’s about maximising net wellbeing, none of this applies to that
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ah yes, also an excellent priorityhttps://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1164300073125195776 …
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Chaos @chaosprimeReplying to @chaosprime @palecur and 2 othersit regards survival & sustainability as at best secondary goals that you address so you can pursue a goal you can actually succeed at in this universe, and regards one car sent into interplanetary space as more interesting & therefore better than ten million years of homeostasis1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
i.e. embrace of whatever seems worth doing to you for its own sake which afaict is absurdism but not a lot of people understand you to be saying that if you use the word
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