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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Calorie apps are a ploy by ZOG to get me to stop drinking their sunflower oil (I won't).

 
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Even if your moral system solves those "problems", you just "solved" them by substituting the obvious and logical base of utility through personal responsibility. Personal responsibility is no inherent good, unlike utility, if people are unhappy/"feel bad", it doesn't matter how personally responsible everyone is being, that world is still a shit place.

Also, the threat isn't imagined. I can assure you that there are a lot more than one person on earth who would choose to kill as many people as possible if given the option.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Idk which moral system you operate under, but I'm concerned with minimising human suffering. That implies hitting kill because chances of a mass murderer are too high not to. You also don't follow traffic laws to a t, but exercise caution because you don't really care whose fault it ends up being, you want to avoid bad outcomes (in this case the extinction of humankind).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Why do you care whose fault it is? You'd want to minimise human deaths, not win a blame game.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just calculated the sum from n=0 to 32 (because 2^33>current global population). And that calculation implies that the chance of catching someone willing to kill all of humanity would have to be lower than 1/8 billion for the expected value of doubling it to be larger than just killing one person.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (6 children)

It does create the funny paradox where, up to a certain point, a rational utilitarian would choose to kill and a rational mass murderer trying to maximise deaths would choose to double it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (12 children)

You would need a crazy low probability of a lunatic or a mass murderer being down the line to justify not to kill one person

Edit: Sum(2^n (1-p)^(n-1) p) ~ Sum(2^n p) for p small. So you'd need a p= (2×2^32 -2) ~ 1/(8 billion) chance of catching a psycho for expected values to be equal. I.e. there is only a single person tops who would decide to kill all on earth.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

I've just now decided that his wife probably isn't 'babying' him but that she's prolly just a weeaboo,

 
[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Idk if I speak for other people here but being critical of capitalism doesn't necessarily mean you want to copy paste North Korea. Or the Ukrainian SSR.