JDM comments on Circular Altruism - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 January 2008 06:00PM

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Comment author: JDM 03 June 2013 04:55:19PM -1 points [-]

It's an extremely hypothetical situation. However, why should it, ignoring externalities as the problem required, be measured at any disutility? That dust speck has no impact on my life in any way, other than making me blink. No pain is involved.

Comment author: BerryPick6 03 June 2013 05:40:54PM 0 points [-]

Because it's one of the parameters of the thought experiment that a dust speck causes a miniscule amount of disutility.