Benquo comments on Torture vs. Dust Specks - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 October 2007 02:50AM

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Comment author: Benquo 05 October 2013 10:25:00PM 1 point [-]

I don't really care what happens if you take the dust speck literally; the point is to exemplify an extremely small disutility.

Comment author: themusicgod1 06 October 2013 06:27:54AM 0 points [-]

I suppose you could view the utility as a meaninful object in this frame and abstract away the dust, too, but in the end the dust-utility system is going to encompaps both anyway so solving the problem on either level is going to solve it on both.