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Vulture comments on Open thread, 21-27 April 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Vulture 23 April 2014 07:00:45PM 1 point [-]

Good point. I guess you could rephrase some of the existential angst over insignificance as despairing at the tiny amounts of utility we can manipulate given a utility function scaled to the entire world/universe/whatever.