David_Gerard comments on Some scary life extension dilemmas - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 03 January 2013 12:18:43PM *  0 points [-]

The more general problem is that utilitarianism by arithmetic keeps giving apparently weird and nonsensical results. I suspect it's an error to say "the apparently weird and nonsensical result must be of vast importance" rather than "perhaps this approach doesn't work very well".