steven0461 comments on On dollars, utility, and crack cocaine - Less Wrong

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Comment author: steven0461 05 April 2009 12:17:29AM *  5 points [-]

Screwing over other people because of scope insensitivity is a failure of instrumental rationality if (and not only if) you also believe that the importance of someone's not being screwed over does not depend strongly on what happens to people unconnected to that person.

Comment author: CarlShulman 05 April 2009 12:41:15AM 2 points [-]

Steve, once people are made aware of larger scopes, they are less willing to pay the same amount of money to have effects with smaller scopes. See the references at this OB post.