Did he really? If true, that’s actually much dumber than I thought, but I couldn’t find anything saying that when I looked.
I wouldn’t characterize that as a “commitment to utilitarianism”, though; you can be a perfect utilitarian and have value that is linear in matter and energy (and presumably number of people?), or be a perfect utilitarian and have some other value function.
The possible redundancy of conscious patterns was one of the things I was thinking about when I wrote:
Secondly, and more importantly, I question whether it is possible even in theory to produce infinite expected value. At some point you’ve created every possible flourishing mind in every conceivable permutation of eudaimonia, satisfaction, and bliss, and the added value of another instance of any of them is basically nil.
Did he really? If true, that’s actually much dumber than I thought, but I couldn’t find anything saying that when I looked.
I wouldn’t characterize that as a “commitment to utilitarianism”, though; you can be a perfect utilitarian and have value that is linear in matter and energy (and presumably number of people?), or be a perfect utilitarian and have some other value function.
The possible redundancy of conscious patterns was one of the things I was thinking about when I wrote: