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Reminder

sonatagreen:

In accordance with the schedule, as of today (Sweetmorn, the 18th of Discord), the official debate topic is now Torture vs. Dust Specks. Please proceed accordingly.

This. Nobody has the neurons to comprehend 3^^^3 properly so all arguments resting on trying to replace it with a comprehensible number are invalid by definition.

3 months ago · 80 notes · source: sonatagreen · .permalink

  1. sonatagreen reblogged this from metagorgon and added:
    Nono, the interminable argument is the dust-specks option. The minor annoyance of seeing yet another TvDS post...
  2. almostcoralchaos reblogged this from ozymandias271
  3. another-normal-anomaly reblogged this from skeletontemple
  4. skeletontemple reblogged this from ozymandias271
  5. metagorgon reblogged this from nothingismoral and added:
    We’re all being simulated so we can carry out this argument in the mind of the decider. The fifty years of torture is in...
  6. nothingismoral reblogged this from ozymandias271 and added:
    That’s why dust speckers don’t think about this - it’s the only way to prevent torturing themselves over it for 50+...
  7. philippesaner reblogged this from nostalgebraist and added:
    Utilitarianism is rubbish and the best moral theory is ad-hoc-ism.
  8. osberend reblogged this from ozymandias271 and added:
    But how many dust speckers are strict consequentialists? Because this argument seems to fall into the common trap of...
  9. lostpuntinentofalantis reblogged this from nostalgebraist and added:
    Oh! I think I agree for the most part. I think I just have a different mental strategy for dealing with...
  10. cofinaldestination reblogged this from ozymandias271
  11. thetransintransgenic reblogged this from ozymandias271 and added:
    During the month of Utilitarianism-Related Grab Bag (or possibly the month of IDK, Probably Moldbug Or Something) I...
  12. urpriest reblogged this from shlevy and added:
    Most such theories still have to worry about aggregation over time on one individual, though. Eudaimonia, maybe not,...
  13. shlevy reblogged this from lostpuntinentofalantis and added:
    FWIW, egoistic ethical theories (or, at least, eudaimonistic virtue ethics) actually don’t have to worry about...
  14. mitoticcephalopod reblogged this from nostalgebraist
  15. nostalgebraist reblogged this from lostpuntinentofalantis and added:
    I’m not saying that aggregation (in the sense of “taking multiple people into consideration”) is bad.My point is that if...