Taboo "make everything worse".
Have worse consequences for everybody, where "everybody" means present and future agents to which we assign moral value. For example, a sufficiently crazy deontologist might want to kill all such agents in the name of some sacred moral principle.
At the very least I find it interesting how rarely an analogous objection against VNM-utiliterians with different utility functions is raised. It's almost as if many of the "VNM-utiliterians" around here don't care what it means to "make everything worse" as long as one avoids doing it, and avoids doing it following the mathematically correct decision theory.
Rarely? Isn't this exactly what we're talking about when we talk about paperclip maximizers?
Have worse consequences for everybody, where "everybody" means present and future agents to which we assign moral value.
When I asked you to taboo "makes everything worse", I meant taboo "worse" not taboo "everything".
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