CronoDAS comments on The Empty White Room: Surreal Utilities - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 23 July 2013 10:15:10AM 0 points [-]

IOW, I guess I accept the repugnant conclusion.

Don't you mean you reject it? (The repugnant conclusion involves preferring large numbers of not-as-good lives to smaller numbers of better lives.)

Comment author: atorm 23 July 2013 12:10:43PM -1 points [-]

The Repugnant Conclusion is as you say. Perhaps RomeoStevens was accepting that the decision he made is repugnant to the author?

Comment author: RomeoStevens 23 July 2013 12:18:41PM 2 points [-]

Oops, I meant Nozick's utility monster.