One person suggests that past experience with suffering is “a reason to avoid fighting suffering. Your own experiences have biased you about how bad suffering is. It’s like someone who keeps a year of food in his basement because he had to go without food at times when he was a kid, or checking where your keys are 20 times a day because you once forgot your keys.” I replied: “Some of the life experiences that make us unique we choose to keep as intrinsic moral values, while others we disregard. If we didn’t keep any of the ‘biases’ that our development instilled in us, we might be paperclip maximizers instead. My moral biases are what make me me.”
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