CronoDAS comments on One Life Against the World - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 06 March 2011 10:24:06PM 2 points [-]

Average human welfare can be improved by eliminating everyone who is below average. This process can be repeated successively until we have only one person left, the happiest man in the world.

"Obvious" counterargument: If you kill everyone else, the happiest man in the world will become less happy.

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