For what it’s worth, my experience hasn’t matched this. I started becoming concerned about the prevalence of net-negative lives during a particularly happy period of my own life, and have noticed very little correlation between the strength of this concern and the quality of my life over time. There are definitely some acute periods where, if I’m especially happy or especially struggling, I have more or less of a system-1 endorsement of this view. But it’s pretty hard to say how much of that is a biased extrapolation, versus just a change in the size of my empathy gap from others’ suffering.
For what it’s worth, my experience hasn’t matched this. I started becoming concerned about the prevalence of net-negative lives during a particularly happy period of my own life, and have noticed very little correlation between the strength of this concern and the quality of my life over time. There are definitely some acute periods where, if I’m especially happy or especially struggling, I have more or less of a system-1 endorsement of this view. But it’s pretty hard to say how much of that is a biased extrapolation, versus just a change in the size of my empathy gap from others’ suffering.