Well, yes. Several popular versions of utilitarianism lead by a fairly short path to what’s probably the first paperclipping scenario I ever read about, although it’s not usually described in those terms.
Coming up with a version of utilitarianism that doesn’t have those problems or an equally unintuitive complement to them is harder than it looks, though.
Well, yes. Several popular versions of utilitarianism lead by a fairly short path to what’s probably the first paperclipping scenario I ever read about, although it’s not usually described in those terms.
Coming up with a version of utilitarianism that doesn’t have those problems or an equally unintuitive complement to them is harder than it looks, though.