How badly could a reasonably intelligent follower of the selfish creed, “Maximize my QALYs”, be manhandled into some unpleasant parallel to a Pascal’s Mugging?
They’d be just as subject to it as anyone else. It’s just that instead of killing 3^^^3 people, they threaten to torture you for 3^^^3 years. Or offer 3^^^3 years of life or something. It comes from having an unbounded utility function. Not from any particular utility function.
They’d be just as subject to it as anyone else. It’s just that instead of killing 3^^^3 people, they threaten to torture you for 3^^^3 years. Or offer 3^^^3 years of life or something. It comes from having an unbounded utility function. Not from any particular utility function.