And as I've pointed out: just as both forks in our path lead to economic ruin, both lead to mass illness and death.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
And there is diminishing marginal disutility—in terms of economic impact—on these deaths. That is to say...
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The economic impact of 10,000 deaths will not be anything like twice as bad as the economic impact of 5,000.
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Right, it’s MORE disruptive. That’s literally how diminishing marginal utility works. Each inch improved matters less, each inch backslid matters more. If ten thousand people die unexpectedly, moreover, there are discontinuities. Like “we run out of morgue space”
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Replying to @lawnerdbarak @RayTski and
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I've addressed both those points elsewhere. On the first:https://twitter.com/HenryTarquin/status/1256010077250523138 …
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @lawnerdbarak and
On the second: yes, there are discontinuities. But the same applies in both directions...
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
What on earth does “in both directions” mean? When does the social disutility of death abruptly discontinuously slacken when more people die? “The entire family was wiped out so no eyes remain open to weep for those which have closed”?
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Replying to @lawnerdbarak @RayTski and
There are discontinuities that interrupt smooth curves whether we're talking about diminishing utility or diminishing disutility
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
I am familiar with calculus and with utility theories. I’m asking you to explain a scenario where you believe an increasing quantity of deaths in a fixed time period has a DISCONTINUOUSLY DIMINISHING disutility
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Replying to @lawnerdbarak @RayTski and
The first murder in an Agatha Christie mansion shocks everyone. The second does also; but less so—they've already taken the biggest hit
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Lol my God you really used fiction to make your point The "marginal disutility" of death measured only to the degree it shocks or upsets people reading about it as a story As though there were no real world these people were living and working in every day
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
when someone's brain hasn't matured past the 'i am indestructible' phase of youth, the thought of *real* people dying remains an amusing fiction. as long as their own life isn't in comprehensible danger, this will stay a philosophy 101 'debate'
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