Repugnant

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Repugnant

Title text: There's a newish Parfit biography out Edmonds that is excellent.

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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

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Now, how bout you come back to my place for a repugnant conclusion? Qlo

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