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

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 October 2007 11:37PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 October 2007 11:44:00PM 4 points [-]

The guy with the button could threaten to make an extra-planar factory farm containing 3^^^^^3 pigs instead of killing 3^^^^3 humans. If utilities are additive, that would be worse.

Congratulations, you made my brain asplode.

Comment author: MugaSofer 18 September 2012 11:04:12AM 0 points [-]

Once again, vegetarians win at morality.