Would you pay one cent to prevent one googleplex of people from having a momentary eye irration?
Torture can be put on a money scale as well: many many countries use torture in war, but we don’t spend huge amounts of money publicizing and shaming these people (which would reduce the amount of torture in the world).
In order to maximize the benefit of spending money, you must weigh sacred against unsacred.
There’s an interesting paper on microtransactions and how human rationality can’t really handle decisions about values under a certain amount. The cognitive effort of making a decision outweighs the possible benefits of making the decision.
How much time would you spend making a decision about how to spend a penny? You can’t make a decision in zero time, it’s not physically possible. Rationally you have to round off the penny, and the spec of dust.
I certainly wouldn’t pay that cent if there was an option of preventing 50 years of torture using that cent. There’s nothing to say that my utility function can’t take values in the surreals.
Would you pay one cent to prevent one googleplex of people from having a momentary eye irration?
Torture can be put on a money scale as well: many many countries use torture in war, but we don’t spend huge amounts of money publicizing and shaming these people (which would reduce the amount of torture in the world).
In order to maximize the benefit of spending money, you must weigh sacred against unsacred.
There’s an interesting paper on microtransactions and how human rationality can’t really handle decisions about values under a certain amount. The cognitive effort of making a decision outweighs the possible benefits of making the decision.
How much time would you spend making a decision about how to spend a penny? You can’t make a decision in zero time, it’s not physically possible. Rationally you have to round off the penny, and the spec of dust.
I certainly wouldn’t pay that cent if there was an option of preventing 50 years of torture using that cent. There’s nothing to say that my utility function can’t take values in the surreals.