CarlShulman comments on Survey Results - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CarlShulman 13 May 2009 03:19:57PM 5 points [-]

Act A will certainly generate X units of good, and has a Y% chance of violating some constraint (killing somone, say). For what values of X and Y will you perform A? It's very tough for deontology to be dynamically consistent.

Comment author: conchis 13 May 2009 06:01:13PM *  3 points [-]

This is a problem for deontology in general, not a specific problem that arises when trying to combine it with consequentialism.

Whatever probability Y a deontologist would accept can simply be built into the constraint. If the constraint is satisfied, then you do A iff it maximizes X. Otherwise you don't.