But, hang on. Grant that there’s some amount of disutility from permanent damage caused by torture. Nevertheless, as you add more specks, at some point you’re going to have added more disutility, right? Suppose the torture victim lives for fifty years after you’re done with him, and he’s an emotional and physical wreck for every day of those fifty years; nevertheless, this is a finite amount of disutility and can be compensated for by inserting a sufficient number of Knuth up-arrows between the numerals. Right?
and can be compensated for by inserting a sufficient number of Knuth up-arrows between the numerals
I think for us “concrete situations”, as meant here, does have a way lower border than just “for some natural number N”. I think no parent of your comment disputed that we are still dealing with finite amounts of (dis)utility.
But, hang on. Grant that there’s some amount of disutility from permanent damage caused by torture. Nevertheless, as you add more specks, at some point you’re going to have added more disutility, right? Suppose the torture victim lives for fifty years after you’re done with him, and he’s an emotional and physical wreck for every day of those fifty years; nevertheless, this is a finite amount of disutility and can be compensated for by inserting a sufficient number of Knuth up-arrows between the numerals. Right?
Prismattic:
Rolf:
I think for us “concrete situations”, as meant here, does have a way lower border than just “for some natural number N”. I think no parent of your comment disputed that we are still dealing with finite amounts of (dis)utility.