The dust / torture thought experiment seems pretty controversial. Why do we have to sum the sufferings? We can aggregate them in various ways, for example we can care about minimizing the maximum suffering rather than minimizing the sum of sufferings, then we don’t torture people no matter how many dust specks there are, which better aligns with some of our values.
The dust / torture thought experiment seems pretty controversial. Why do we have to sum the sufferings? We can aggregate them in various ways, for example we can care about minimizing the maximum suffering rather than minimizing the sum of sufferings, then we don’t torture people no matter how many dust specks there are, which better aligns with some of our values.