They almost certainly are on the margin (think taylor series approx of utility function). Get to the point where you are talking about killing a significant fraction of the sparrow population, then there’s no reason to think so.
To be clear: are you claiming that utilities are not additive? That there is some level of Bad Things that two (a thousand, a billion …) times as much is not worse? I’ve seen the position advocated, but only by appealing to scope insensitivity.
Why?
They almost certainly are on the margin (think taylor series approx of utility function). Get to the point where you are talking about killing a significant fraction of the sparrow population, then there’s no reason to think so.
True, but this doesn’t apply to MugaSofer’s claim that
To be clear: are you claiming that utilities are not additive? That there is some level of Bad Things that two (a thousand, a billion …) times as much is not worse? I’ve seen the position advocated, but only by appealing to scope insensitivity.