After trying several ideas, I realized that my personal utility function converges, among its other features. And it’s obvous in retrospect. After all, there’s only so much horror I can feel. But while you call this nasty names like “scope insensitivity”, I embrace it. It’s my utility function. It’s not good or bad or wrong or biased, it just is. (Scope insensitivity with regard to probabilities is, of course, still bad.)
I still think that one man should be tortured a lot instead of many being tortured slightly less, because higher individual suffering results in a higher point of convergence.
This also explains why our minds reject “Pascal’s mugging”.
After trying several ideas, I realized that my personal utility function converges, among its other features. And it’s obvous in retrospect. After all, there’s only so much horror I can feel. But while you call this nasty names like “scope insensitivity”, I embrace it. It’s my utility function. It’s not good or bad or wrong or biased, it just is. (Scope insensitivity with regard to probabilities is, of course, still bad.)
I still think that one man should be tortured a lot instead of many being tortured slightly less, because higher individual suffering results in a higher point of convergence.
This also explains why our minds reject “Pascal’s mugging”.