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Comment author: CuSithBell 17 February 2011 06:53:49PM 1 point [-]

Also note that, besides thought experiments, "extreme negative utility" is also observed in religious discourse. I'd say Hell is probably the archetypal example of [someone proposing] infini-torture [to win an argument].