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==Transcript== {{computertranscript}} :[Describe panel here] :Are you familiar with parfit's "repugnant conclusion"? Where utilitarians are forced to admit that, say, a society of a trillion slightly happy people might be preferable to a society of a thousand blissed out people? :Pfft, that's dumb. :The human mind :A society of a trillion people is a galaxy-spanning planet-manipulating techno-miracle. If einstein was one in a billion, they have a thousand einsteins. If they haven't yet worked out brain manipulation, they will about four seconds after they realize they want to. :Is a three-pound :Hallucination blissing out is an engineering :Challenge. :Meanwhile, the thousand blissed out people are a small enough society that they can't possibly support bliss for long. :The repugnant conclusion is an unstable equilibrium. If you instantaneously :No complex division of labor means no modern medicine, no robust supply chains of food. Tragedy will hit them and they'll have no choice but to endure sorrow. :Created it in simulation, it would immediately cease its repugnance. :When you put your econ in my philosophy it makes me feel gross. :Grow up :smbc-comics.com
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