David_Gerard comments on A (small) critique of total utilitarianism - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 26 June 2012 12:36PM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 26 June 2012 09:39:50PM *  3 points [-]

But the spirit of the argument is ungrounded in anything. What evidence is there that you can do this stuff at all using actual numbers without repeatedly bumping into "don't do non-normative things even if you got that answer from a shut-up-and-multiply"?