I have a lot of detractors not smart enough to understand large numbers. I say X is better than (bignum >> googolplex) people suffering the tiniest noticeable pain, and the # gets rounded down to "billions" or "quintillions". https://twitter.com/just_an_initial/status/940110359133851648 …
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky
Playing gotcha with word games is a distraction from your underlying assumption that utility functions must be linear.
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Replying to @Random832
It's not a little gotcha! Even on the most naive numbers, billions of people with dust specks in their eyes are quantitatively better than 50 years of torment. And you need doubly-exponential quantities, like a googolplex, to make the obvious argument from circular preferences.
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Where the preference chain is "Clearly X people getting two dust specks in their eyes is better than googol*X people getting one dust speck in their eye" (...) "One victim for 50 years is better than a googol people tormented for fifty years minus one second."
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