sufficiently advanced utilitarianism is indistinguishable from evil
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the twenty year old IMPROOVER https://twitter.com/mechanical_monk/status/1376857747430510594 …pic.twitter.com/ZkblHIWv7w
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i should delete that but i wont
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all of the utilitarians angrily protesting in the replies should consider whether theyre making anyones lives better by doing so instead of knitting mosquito nets or identifying people to vivisect so that their organs can be redistributed to transplant patients to maximize QALYs
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Replying to @eigenrobot
that's not utilitarianism, wtf
utilitarians want to make the world better, a world where people are hunted down to get their organs redistributed is not better5 replies 0 retweets 21 likes -
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Replying to @eigenrobot @mechanical_monk
Guess you got to factor in negative externalities of being stressed about your/your loved ones organs being harvested? Might help tip the scale to ‘no harvesting’ even in a utilitarian framework?
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unless we run some RCTs we'll never know for sure
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Replying to @eigenrobot @mechanical_monk
“Based on our RCT in Busan, Kenya — the gold standard for evidence — we have found a statistically significant 3.2% increase...”
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