Would you rather all the water in the world had one part per million arsenic or five people’s glasses of water contain all the world’s arsenic? This is a serious philosophical question and not a deranged LinkedIn comment by someone who has mistaken inspirational seminars for religion.
This isn’t even worth litigating at the level of comparison to something like diminishing marginal value of nominal resources, you’re just insane.
“I’m going to put some dirt in your eye”—Spider Man but Bad
It seems important to know what things are interchangeable and what aren’t:
Interchangeable: the base constituents of all consciousness, given that physicalism defines the limits of all possible worlds
Not interchangeable: the long term consequences of any given type of action in any given time and place.
What does it mean to “prefer torturing a child to putting dust specks in people’s eyes”? Nothing. It means you’re an idiot.
This isn’t just an act/rule utilitarian distinction, orders of operation are very normal types of rules.
I think you are the unaligned AI. Sorry about that. I hope you get better soon.
Would you rather all the water in the world had one part per million arsenic or five people’s glasses of water contain all the world’s arsenic? This is a serious philosophical question and not a deranged LinkedIn comment by someone who has mistaken inspirational seminars for religion.
This isn’t even worth litigating at the level of comparison to something like diminishing marginal value of nominal resources, you’re just insane.