Who has constant marginal utility of money up to $1,000,000,000?
Who has constant marginal utility of people up to 1000000000 people? (To answer the rhetorical question—no one.)
Consequences can’t be inflated to make up for arbitrarily low probabilities. Consequences are connected: if averting human extinction by proliferation of morally valueless machinery is super valuable because of future generations, then the gains of averting human extinction by asteroids, or engineered diseases, will be on the same scale.
This reminds of of Jaynes and transformation groups—establish your prior based on transforms that leave you with the same problem. I find this makes short work of arbitrary assertions that want to be taken seriously.
Who has constant marginal utility of people up to 1000000000 people? (To answer the rhetorical question—no one.)
This reminds of of Jaynes and transformation groups—establish your prior based on transforms that leave you with the same problem. I find this makes short work of arbitrary assertions that want to be taken seriously.