OpenAI researcher questions EA's core axiom: is suffering actually bad?
willdepue · x · 2026-09-26
OpenAI researcher Will DePue challenges a foundational assumption of effective altruism: EAs question all conventional wisdom except "suffering is bad." He argues that if you can posit infinite artificial minds, the assumed negativity of suffering and positivity of bliss deserves scrutiny too — kicking off a follow-up debate about "Nietzschean AI."
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