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RobinZ comments on Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately - Less Wrong
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Today I overhead a man in the supermarket telling his wife that maybe they should buy some lottery tickets, and I was reminded of Eliezer's "opening doors for little old ladies" line (which he repeated in his recent video answers).
Isn't buying lottery tickets also a form of purchasing warm fuzzies? I'm not sure that opening doors for little old ladies is any more defensible for a utilitarian than buying lottery tickets is for a rationalist.
Note: This comment is off-topic.
I consider opening the door for a frail old lady roughly equivalent to opening the door for a perfectly healthy but heavily encumbered young lady. My utility function includes a term for them, and the change in that term outweighs the change in the term for me.
I think you're missing the point here, Robin. Have you read Eliezer's post that my comment is filed under? Please do that if you haven't.
...right - ignore my comment.