Tag: utility monster

• Morality, thy discount is hyperbolic

  One well known failure mode of Utilitarian ethics is a thing called a “utility monster” — for any value of “benefit” and “suffering”, it’s possible to postulate an entity (Bob) and a course of action (The Plan) where Bob receives so much benefit that everyone else can suffer arbitrarily great pain and yet you “should”…

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  January 8, 2020

  Philosophy

  black swan, discounting, future of humanity, long-term future, outside context problem, Philosophy, Technological Singularity, Utilitarianism, utility monster, x-risk