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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2/n The central argument (afaik) is that, comparing two populations, more people w/ on average less happiness is better as long as the sum of happiness over everyone is larger
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3/n Leaving aside how you define happiness, isn’t this just illogical (like, philosophy is considering situations the laws of human nature don’t allow us to explore)?
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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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6/n Anyway, where am I wrong?
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found this to be a helpful breakdown if you haven’t seen ithttps://bargaininggame.wordpress.com/2017/10/03/parfit-on-how-to-avoid-the-repugnant-conclusion-and-some-additional-personal-considerations/ …
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