So because there is a continuum between the right answer (lots of torture) and the wrong answer (3^^^3 horribly blinded people), you would rather blind those people?
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You’re avoiding the question. What if a penny was automatically payed for you each time in the future to avoid dust specks floating in your eye? The question is whether the dust speck is worth at least a negative penny of disutility. For me, I would say yes.
I don’t see why they should be more valuable. From a selfish perspective, it might feel worse to lose someone you know, but from a charitable perspective, I don’t value someone merely because I am familiar with them.
Utilitarianism to the rescue, then.
Yes. We just aren’t socially condemned for it.
This is really useful; thanks! I’ve been using Anki for little over a year now, and I’ve found it very useful for classes and learning programming. I really like this application, and I’d love to see any more decks that you happen to make. I’ll definitely start my own next time I go back and read through the archives.
I can’t make this one. Sorry to bail at the last minute. —Paul Hobbs
Thank you for this.
So if someone would pay a penny, they should pick torture if it were 3^^^^3 people getting dust specks, which makes it suspect that they understood 3^^^3 in the first place.