gRR comments on The "Intuitions" Behind "Utilitarianism" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 21 February 2012 01:02:26AM *  1 point [-]

For example: what if there's a man, accused of murder, of whose guilt we're 50% certain. If guilty and not executed, he'll probably (90%) kill two other random people. Should we execute him?

If we're weighing equally the lives of everyone, both guilty and innocent, and ignore other sideeffects, this reduces to:
- if we execute him, 100% of one death
- if we don't execute him, 45% chance of two deaths.

Comment author: gRR 21 February 2012 01:52:05AM 0 points [-]

Right. Changed to "three random people".