handoflixue comments on SotW: Check Consequentialism - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 March 2012 01:35AM

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Comment author: scav 29 March 2012 08:19:58AM 5 points [-]

Indeed. That would imply that our shared goal of raising the sanity waterline would cause most of the population to drown :)

Mind you, I like that the OP is asking what the consequences would be. However my guess is: more people making slightly better decisions some of the time, and with no obvious mechanism for "letting other things slip", I don't see a downside.

Comment author: handoflixue 03 April 2012 12:22:38AM 0 points [-]

That would imply that our shared goal of raising the sanity waterline would cause most of the population to drown :)

Upvoted because I rather like that phrasing :)