Quote Originally Posted by Lukie View Post
right now I'm inclined to say that I would take the 99 good lives:1 bad life chance
Most people would but then regret it when the time comes to live that one life. Pain is pain and it knows nothing other than pain. When we're happy we say life is good, when we're sad we say life is bad; the difference is that the only time anybody says the bad is worth it for the good is when they've forgotten what the bad is like. Bad things are also substantially more powerful than good things. For example, there is no counterpart to post-traumatic stress disorder. If enough bad things happen to you, your life becomes one of unfathomable suffering, but if enough good things happen to you, you feel kinda just normal.


bold I disagree with and I can't see how that is logical at all?
It is logical because the absence of suffering is good while the absence of pleasure isn't bad. In death, there is nothing, but in life, there is suffering whose victims cannot fathom a justification for their suffering and want nothing more than to be freed of their suffering.

The rest is true and somewhat depressing, but I have already considered it and you can even go the other way. e.g. one of your kids becomes a scientist and figures out how to cure cancer, or develops nanotech to help reverse reverse the trends of global warming
That's in addition to those who go the other way. Even then, if we were being expansively logical we would fear technological developments because it is those that make suffering easier to create and more pervasive and perpetual. What happens when a conscious sadistic AI immortal is created and it creates immortal victims?

There is more suffering in the world today because of greater technology, and it will only get worse, all the way to a point where suffering is effectively infinite. Eventually we will be able to create immortal, conscious machines that can and will be put into perpetual suffering and completely forgotten about. The limitations of the suffering in this world are merely due to primitive tech. A dynamic consciousness by definition creates suffering and with enough tech that suffering is endless