Eliezer—I think the issues we’re getting into now require discussion that’s too involved to handle in the comments. Thus, I’ve composed my own post on this question. Would you please be so kind as to approve it?
Recovering irrationalist: I think the hopefully-forthcoming-post-of-my-own will constitute one kind of answer to your comment. One other might be that one can, in fact, prefer huge dust harassment to a little torture. Yet a third might be that we can’t aggregate the pain of dust harassment across people, so that there’s some amount of single-person dust harassment that will be worse than some amount of torture, but if we spread that out, it’s not.
Eliezer—I think the issues we’re getting into now require discussion that’s too involved to handle in the comments. Thus, I’ve composed my own post on this question. Would you please be so kind as to approve it?
Recovering irrationalist: I think the hopefully-forthcoming-post-of-my-own will constitute one kind of answer to your comment. One other might be that one can, in fact, prefer huge dust harassment to a little torture. Yet a third might be that we can’t aggregate the pain of dust harassment across people, so that there’s some amount of single-person dust harassment that will be worse than some amount of torture, but if we spread that out, it’s not.