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prase comments on Is Equality Really about Diminishing Marginal Utility? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: prase 06 December 2012 10:35:20PM 1 point [-]

I find it difficult to sympathise with people who exhibit traits characteristic for utility monsters and those people are usually still quite far away from the thought-experiment ideal of a utility monster. I am sure that if the monster told me what it wants, I'd do my best to prevent it from happening.