What is a Flourishing Life?

Negative rule utilitarianism. Minimize suffering. Suffering can be mostly agreed upon. Though the long-term suffering of lack of fulfillment is harder to address.

But happiness itself is so much more varied, in fact it's presumptuous, conceited, to tell people what makes them happy.

• But we can all relate to suffering more so as a universal ah thats suffering

• Prevents repugnant conclusion if we define suffering of a certain level as standard. Maybe a bit weak like how Peter Singer transitioned back to full utility instead of just preference to avoid pain

• Why do I care about the suffering of other sentient beings? Deontological view of universal law, (universality clause of the categorical imperative). If others thought that way, I would suffer (selfishly). We work together. 1 person can't do it all. If I lived in a world where everyone only thought of themselves, would I reasonably want to live in that world?

  • If I saw others suffering I would want to help. But I don’t care about everyone else I don’t know about. But is that a logical fallacy?

  • So maybe I would want to live in a world where people care about those around them, that makes them function. The community. Aristotle’s sense of self.

    • But then when about ASI? Or if someone takes control of the world like Hitler and starts killing. As long as it’s not us we’re ok? Well I guess it would threaten us if he gained too much power eventually. This is the current state of the majority of humans on Earth, Patriotism + still human rights for all humans.

We're all discovering the dangerous future of potential super intelligent AI; but at the core of it,

being human is what's most important. Caring four our communities, and helping each other, and remembering the precious memories shared.