What's the name of that argument about a billion slightly content people being preferable to a utopia of a million? Want to write something.
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@sarahdoingthing Also I get to invoke the Hairy Ball Theorem. -
@St_Rev you cannot imagine how pleased I am to hear that
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@sarahdoingthing I'm just going to try to make the point that local-global problems are really hard, & lots of puzzles in moral phil...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahdoingthing ...look a lot like they're attempts to naively extend local ideas to global ones, & we shouldn't expect that to work.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahdoingthing but that it's likely they can't be extended at all: telescoping morality isn't just wrong, but impossible.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahdoingthing That moreover a very plausible position is not just that we don't know how to telescope morality/utility/etc.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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