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UmamiSalami comments on In favour of total utilitarianism over average - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: casebash 22 December 2015 05:07AM

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Comment author: UmamiSalami 23 December 2015 12:48:57AM *  -1 points [-]

Would you accept a lottery where there was 1 ticket to maintain your life as a satisfied cookie utility monster and hundreds of trillions of tickets to become a miserable enslaved cookie maker?

Or, after rational reflection and experiencing the alternate possibilities, would you rather prefer a guaranteed life of threshold satisfaction?