Xodarap comments on A Pure Math Argument for Total Utilitarianism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Xodarap 27 October 2013 10:08:41PM *  2 points [-]

Not all, just countable...

Z^2 lexically ordered is countable but can't be embedded in Z.

It seems like your intuition is shared by a lot of LW though - people seem to think it's "obvious" that these restrictions result in total utilitarianism, even though it's actually pretty tricky.