TheOtherDave 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: TheOtherDave 28 June 2012 01:34:10PM 2 points [-]

(nods) Makes sense.
If I offered to, and had the ability to, alter your brain so that something that already existed in vast quantities -- say, hydrogen atoms -- made you indescribably happy, and you had taken appropriate precautions to rule out the possibility that I wasn't very friendly towards you and that this wasn't a trap, would you agree?

Comment author: Mass_Driver 29 June 2012 12:02:06AM 0 points [-]

Sure! That sounds great. Thank you. :-)