novalis comments on Humans are utility monsters - Less Wrong

67 Post author: PhilGoetz 16 August 2013 09:05PM

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Comment author: shminux 19 August 2013 04:07:56PM 1 point [-]

Killing it reduces the overall suffering, since its quality of life is well below the "barely worth living" level, with no hope of improvement.

Comment author: novalis 20 August 2013 04:42:40AM 0 points [-]

That doesn't work for preference utilitarians (it would strongly prefer to remain alive).