Lee comments on Circular Altruism - Less Wrong
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Consider these two facts about me:
(1) It is NOT CLEAR to me that saving 1 person with certainty is morally equivalent to saving 2 people when a fair coin lands heads in a one-off deal.
(2) It is CLEAR to me that saving 1000 people with p=.99 is morally better than saving 1 person with certainty.
Models are supposed to hew to the facts. Your model diverges from the facts of human moral judgments, and you respond by exhorting us to live up to your model.
Why should we do that?