Hrm… Recovering’s induction argument is starting to sway me toward TORTURE.
More to the point, that and some other comments are starting to sway me away from the thought that disutility of single dust speck events per person becomes sublinear as people experiencing it increases (but total population is held constant)
I think if I made some errors, they were partly was caused by “I really don’t want to say TORTURE”, and partly caused by my mistaking the exact nature of the nonlinearity. I maintain “one person experiencing two dust specks” is not equal to, and actually worse, I think, than two people experiencing one dust speck, but now I’m starting to suspect that two people each experiencing one dust speck is exactly twice as bad as one person experiencing one dust speck. (Assuming, as we shift number of people experiencing DSE that we hold the total population constant.)
Thus, I’m going to tentatively shift my answer to TORTURE.
Hrm… Recovering’s induction argument is starting to sway me toward TORTURE.
More to the point, that and some other comments are starting to sway me away from the thought that disutility of single dust speck events per person becomes sublinear as people experiencing it increases (but total population is held constant)
I think if I made some errors, they were partly was caused by “I really don’t want to say TORTURE”, and partly caused by my mistaking the exact nature of the nonlinearity. I maintain “one person experiencing two dust specks” is not equal to, and actually worse, I think, than two people experiencing one dust speck, but now I’m starting to suspect that two people each experiencing one dust speck is exactly twice as bad as one person experiencing one dust speck. (Assuming, as we shift number of people experiencing DSE that we hold the total population constant.)
Thus, I’m going to tentatively shift my answer to TORTURE.