Human psychology has evolved to generate pleasure and pain where this motivated reproductive fitness, not to maximize well-being, entailing hard-to-avoid suffering and sparingly doled pleasures

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• Evolution may have generated more intensely motivating-per-second pains in response to injury than pleasures in response to positive events, because injury risks more fitness per second than positive events gainclaim0.833
  Grounds the claim that digital minds could be engineered to experience pleasures as intensely rewarding as the worst pains are disrewarding
• Evolution was using developmental bioelectricity long before neurons and muscles appeared, to solve the problem of creating and repairing complex bodies.claim0.789
  Claim about the primacy of bioelectric morphogenesis.
• The kind of relationships necessary to produce evolutionary individuality – the generation and heritability of fitness differences at the collective level – are the same as those required to produce organismic individuality – the information integration and collective action characteristic of a self.claim0.781
  Core conjecture linking evolutionary and organismic individuality.
• If welfare grows more slowly than cost with mind scale, greatest total welfare would be obtained by building vast numbers of tiny minds, implying insect populations may already overwhelm humans in aggregate welfarehypothesis0.779
  One of two scaling hypotheses examined for the mind-scale dimension
• The exponential or super-exponential reproductive potential of digital minds could allow them to vastly outnumber humans in a relatively short time, correspondingly increasing the collective strength of their moral claimsclaim0.773
  Establishes the reproductive capacity dimension of super-beneficiary status
• Constraints and biases of human intelligence are best avoided by ‘designing for emergence’ rather than implementing a pre-existing theory of intelligence.claim0.771
  Recommendation for creating non-anthropocentric machine intelligence.
• Biology's robustness, open-endedness, evolvability, and unique complexity likely depend on the fact that evolution works with an agential material.claim0.770
  Central claim linking life's properties to the inherent competencies of its material substrate.
• Evolution places little emphasis on veridical perception.claim0.770
  Claim from Hoffman, endorsed by Levin.