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Creutzer comments on [Open Thread] Stupid Questions (2014-02-17) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Creutzer 19 February 2014 12:38:13AM *  1 point [-]

I think you're talking past each other. Rowan is assuming the amount of happiness and suffering to be distributed across several people, where adding another person with the same suffering/pleasure ratio shouldn't change anything, and dunno is, I believe, talking about a single person's perspective where, once you've reached a certain amount of suffering, it might be impossible to outweigh it.