Ruxandra Teslo: making suffering-avoidance the ultimate goal breeds utility-monster outcomes
shae_mcl · x · 2026-11-15
Sharing Ruxandra Teslo's argument: she doesn't think we should accept suffering, but making its avoidance the utmost goal above all else has bad unintended consequences resembling 'utility monster' dynamics—many utilitarian strands literally center pain avoidance. She distinguishes relieving suffering from treating its avoidance as life's highest aim: health and longevity exist to enable higher-order goods like friends, family, and fulfilling work, and she'd sacrifice years of life for her children and ideas she cares about. The quoted tweet takes a more radical transhumanist stance: accepting death and disease is 'cucked,' so is giving up and letting a utility-monster successor species replace us—cybernetics, biotech, and mass automation are the way.
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