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Comment author: qmotus 11 April 2016 12:11:33PM *  2 points [-]

Past surveys show that most LessWrongers are consequentialists, and many are also effective altruism advocates. What do they think of infinities in ethics?

As I've intuitively always favoured some kind of negative utilitarianism, this has caused me some confusion.

Comment author: James_Miller 15 April 2016 03:42:44AM 0 points [-]

Doesn't anthropics strongly push us to figure that the universe is infinite?

Comment author: qmotus 15 April 2016 06:55:37AM *  1 point [-]

I suppose so, and that's where the problems for consequentialism arise.