SMBC often does great rationalism jokes, Zach Weiner is definitely our people (anyone know if he frequents Less Wrong?). Today's comic rephrases the old Torture-vs-Dust-Specks debate. I realize some people posit that death has infinite disutility and thus is inapplicable. Still, an example of the sort of problem one often encounters when trying to promote a shut-up-and-multiply rule in morality.
This has nothing to do with the torture vs. specks debate, it's just a person with a weird utility function (a term for "percentage of people involved who died" rather than "number of people who died").
SMBC often does great rationalism jokes, Zach Weiner is definitely our people (anyone know if he frequents Less Wrong?). Today's comic rephrases the old Torture-vs-Dust-Specks debate. I realize some people posit that death has infinite disutility and thus is inapplicable. Still, an example of the sort of problem one often encounters when trying to promote a shut-up-and-multiply rule in morality.
V = K / x