if the greatest-good-for-the-greatest-number shoe fits
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Replying to @chaosprime @Tunamle and
I think reason why most greater-goo types aren't utilitarians and typically resent utilitarians is that most of utilitarianism eventually culminates in "now do the math bitch, and show your work" and they usually turn in napkin with something like "joo bad" scrawled with shit
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Replying to @0K_ultra @chaosprime and
also just counting the number of shoes doesn't account for the comfiness of each pair
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without even getting into the utility monsters that a casual look around demonstrates that we've been massively incentivizing people to be
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Replying to @chaosprime @Tunamle and
utility monsters are entirely theoretical construct that an unaugmented human can not be - and it is amusing that utilitarians get hung up on it so. A bit like a particularly comical strain of utilitarian-derived thinkers gets freaked out by "basilisks" from the future
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counterpoint: Paris Hilton
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Replying to @chaosprime @Tunamle and
There is no particular reason to believe Paris Hilton actually experiences/produces more utility per unit of resource consumed. Like, proving such a hypothesis would require some kind of incredibly advanced neuro-interface to actually investigate what "is being PH" like
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Replying to @0K_ultra @chaosprime and
If anything a lot of these folks behave like I would expect a reverse-utility monster to behave, a creature that gains LESS utility per unit of resources consumed, so they have to consume A METRIC FUCKTON
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Replying to @0K_ultra @chaosprime and
yeah, they're hard to please. so isn't that the reverse of a utility monster?
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Replying to @Tunamle @chaosprime and
exactly. Utility monster is very easy to "utilitariplease", so easy, in fact, that if your "system"'s goal is to max out a "utility counter" and you found a utility monster, the rational thing is to abandon everyone to die and tickle the utility monster or someshit
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the bearing on our collective relationship to Paris Hilton being left as an exercise
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Replying to @chaosprime @Tunamle and
I don't think that resources PH has access to were provided to her on the grounds of her unusual utility output.
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