SaidAchmiz comments on Humans are utility monsters - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SaidAchmiz 19 August 2013 07:21:29PM 0 points [-]

If you prefer a happy monster to no monster and no monster to a sad monster, then you prefer a happy monster to a sad monster

Only if your preferences are transitive.

Comment author: linkhyrule5 19 August 2013 07:48:19PM *  1 point [-]

If you have any sort of coherent utility system at all, they will be.

A better point is that "no monster" just means you're shunting the problem to poor Alternate You in another many-worlds branch, whereas killing a happy monster means actually decreasing the number of universes with the monster in it by one.