pnrjulius comments on Pascal's Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pnrjulius 07 April 2012 01:27:39AM 5 points [-]

So, if there is someone out there committing grevious holocausts (if we use realistic numbers like "10 million deaths", "20 billion deaths", the probability of this is near 1), then none of us have any moral obligations ever?

Comment author: kokotajlod 27 February 2013 01:22:31AM 0 points [-]

I guess so. It's an interesting idea--kind of like social cooperation problems like recycling; if too many other people are not doing it, then there isn't much point in doing it yourself. Applying it to morality is interesting. But wrong, I think.