wedrifid comments on Rational Justice - Less Wrong

0 Post author: geebee2 09 January 2012 10:05PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 10 January 2012 10:09:11AM 2 points [-]

If letting the guilty party go free is net positive utility summed over all agents, I desire to let the guilty party go free. If punishing the guilty party is net positive utility summed over all agents, I desire to punish the guilty party. Let me not become attached to "justice-as-punishing-the-guilty" as a terminal goal.

To the extent that shokwave has the power to enforce this will I desire to thwart and cripple shokwave's influence.

It's a step up from the most primitive 'happiness' utilitarians but only a small one. It is a 'Justice' function that merely influences to whatever extent possible in the direction of tiling the universe with as many agents as possible with as much 'utility' as possible.