What kinds of evidence and experience could induce you to update for/against the importance of severe suffering?
Do you believe that exposure to or experience of severe suffering would cause the average EA to focus more heavily on it?
Edit: Moving the question “Thinking counterfactually, what evidence and experiences caused you to have the views you do on severe suffering?” down here because it looks like other commenters already asked another version of it.
I would guess that actually experiencing certain possible conscious states, in particular severe suffering or very intense bliss, could significantly change my views, although I am not sure if I would endorse this as “reflection” or if it might lead to bias.
It seems plausible (but I am not aware of strong evidence) that experience of severe suffering generally causes people to focus more on it. However, I myself have fortunately never experienced severe suffering, so that would be a data point to the contrary.
What kinds of evidence and experience could induce you to update for/against the importance of severe suffering?
Do you believe that exposure to or experience of severe suffering would cause the average EA to focus more heavily on it?
Edit: Moving the question “Thinking counterfactually, what evidence and experiences caused you to have the views you do on severe suffering?” down here because it looks like other commenters already asked another version of it.
I would guess that actually experiencing certain possible conscious states, in particular severe suffering or very intense bliss, could significantly change my views, although I am not sure if I would endorse this as “reflection” or if it might lead to bias.
It seems plausible (but I am not aware of strong evidence) that experience of severe suffering generally causes people to focus more on it. However, I myself have fortunately never experienced severe suffering, so that would be a data point to the contrary.