1/n I’m confused by Derek Parfit’s ‘Repugnant Conclusion’. Can anyone help me understand the right way to think about this?
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4/n Seems like theorizing about a type of evolution that only selected for broken organisms - just not going to happen pragmatically
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5/n Related to an issue I don’t understand in stat physics where people talk about the full state space but not trajectories that could just be totally inaccessible given some starting point
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Consider the difference b/w India & the US today. India has a population 4 times the size of the US. But the standard of living in India is much worse. But a utilitarian might say the total amount of happiness in India is higher, as there are more people
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Much of philosophy uses unrealistic thought experiments to test our intuitions on isolated variables
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I guess one needs a definition or measure of "average happiness" that wouldn't increase merely from the consent involved in persuading someone to (consent to) creating lots of in vitro babies who die young. People already do something similar to livestock.
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