Psychohistorian comments on Quantum Russian Roulette - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Psychohistorian 18 September 2009 07:59:45PM 2 points [-]

It is possible to kill someone without invoking any negative experiences.

Average utilitarianism requires more, it requires that it is possible to have a policy of systematically killing most people that does not result in negative experiences. This does not seem meaningfully possible for any agents that are vaguely human, so this is a straw man objection to average utilitarianism, and a pretty bad one at that.