Comment by Adamus on Amputation of Destiny · 2009-01-02T08:19:32.000Z · LW · GW

"If there's nothing more to life than eliminating suffering, you might as well eliminate life and be done."

This only applies if non-existence is considered a preferable state to existence. Obviously Culture AI's consider existence preferable, and thus strive to make human existence as suffering-free as possible.