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

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Comment author: CarlShulman 29 June 2012 06:06:27PM 5 points [-]

But aren't those empirical difficulties, not fundamental ones?

What sort of empirical fact would you discover that would resolve that? A detector for happiness radiation? The scenario in that paper is pretty well specified.