ThrustVectoring comments on Skirting the mere addition paradox - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 18 November 2013 05:50PM

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Comment author: ThrustVectoring 19 November 2013 12:57:38AM 0 points [-]

I don't think it's necessary to butcher your utility function calculations that way. Adding someone with a positive-value life is a good thing (else it would not be positive value).