I could qualify my example, saying surveillance ensures only people who provide zero utility are allowed to be murdered,
If some people’s lives are worth zero utility, then by definition they are worthless. That’s what “zero utility” means. Did you mean something else? Because it seems to me that nobody is worthless to me in real life, and that’s why your example doesn’t work.
A single speck of dust, even an annoying and slightly painful one, in the eyes of X people NEVER adds up to 50 years of torture for an individual. It doesn’t matter how large you make X, 7 billion, a googolplex, or 13^^^^^^^^41. It’s irrelevant.
And you judge it irrelevant based on what? Considering that scope insensitivity is a known bias in humans, so “instinct” is reliably going to go wrong in this case without mindhacking. Two murders are worse than one murder, two gorups of people with dustspecks in heir eyes are worse than one such group; at what point does this stop being true?
If some people’s lives are worth zero utility, then by definition they are worthless. That’s what “zero utility” means. Did you mean something else? Because it seems to me that nobody is worthless to me in real life, and that’s why your example doesn’t work.
And you judge it irrelevant based on what? Considering that scope insensitivity is a known bias in humans, so “instinct” is reliably going to go wrong in this case without mindhacking. Two murders are worse than one murder, two gorups of people with dustspecks in heir eyes are worse than one such group; at what point does this stop being true?