“Being turned into a Gorian” is within the range of enough human desires to make it a significant subculture, although it’s repugnant to a much larger section of the culture. I have never heard of anyone with a fantasy of being turned into paperclips. So which is better seems to depend on how you sum utility over all the involved actors.
If it were to FOOM any social norms it absorbed at all would probably make it better not worse. In a kind of “∞ minus 1” way.
Good point, but I’m not entirely sure. Being turned into a Gorian could be worse than being turned into paperclips.
“Being turned into a Gorian” is within the range of enough human desires to make it a significant subculture, although it’s repugnant to a much larger section of the culture. I have never heard of anyone with a fantasy of being turned into paperclips. So which is better seems to depend on how you sum utility over all the involved actors.