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by BoxOfRain·5y ago·view on hn ↗
I'm sure there's a middle ground between our default level of evolutionary baggage and no pain at all though. I wouldn't mind keeping burns and broken bones being painful, but I'd love to do away with minor annoyances like stinging nettles, wasps, and things like that.

Also being able to turn off pain to a specific problematic area would be nice too, I have a permanent headache from a neurological issue and it'd save me a lot on the quantities of CBD that goes into keeping that at bay!

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I think the useful distinction is between acute pain, which is generally very useful, and chronic pain, which has huge negative effects with no known upside.
Agree. I recently read Pain is Really Strange (Steve Haines) and it was such a perspective shift on my understanding of how different the two are. (The illustrations are fantastic as well.)

https://uk.singingdragon.com/products/pain-is-really-strange

Imagine if you could turn down pain like hitting the snooze button on an alarm. "Yes, I know my bone has been broken and I'm working on addressing it, please snooze all pain signals from that area for an hour."