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Wei_Dai comments on Open thread, 7-14 July 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 13 July 2014 12:27:07PM 0 points [-]

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but Toby Ord has written a criticism of several forms of negative utilitarianism, including what he calls Lexical Threshold NU (which he attributes to David Pearce), which sounds like what you might be thinking of.