selylindi comments on Against Utilitarianism: Sobel's attack on judging lives' goodness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: selylindi 31 January 2012 07:48:34PM *  1 point [-]

I think it needs some editing at the moment. What is premise 0? How does 4.4 follow from what came before? Under 5.1, what are these lives the same as or different than?

Parts 1 and 2 of the argument both initially struck me as highly implausible. Was there some argumentation that you skipped wherein the authors tried to justify those points?

Comment author: gwern 31 January 2012 09:16:23PM 0 points [-]

I think it needs some editing at the moment.

Yes, turns out LessWrong Markdown doesn't let you number from 0... even when you hand-edit in the right HTML parameter, <ol start="0", which meant all the numbers were off by one. I think I fixed them all.

Was there some argumentation that you skipped wherein the authors tried to justify those points?

As I said, I removed the examples to get at the logical structure.