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private_messaging comments on Multiverse-Wide Preference Utilitarianism - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: Brian_Tomasik 30 January 2014 06:08PM

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Comment author: private_messaging 31 January 2014 09:07:10PM 0 points [-]

Am I the only one who doesn't find this suspicious at all?

Me either. Basically other people in the example do not want to hear Beethoven all that much, they have other priorities.

should we let the BUM run over pedestrians in the road on its way to Carnegie Hall?

Not if their utility of being run over is close to 0 ...