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  • howrar@lemmy.cato196@lemmy.blahaj.zonewar, war never rules
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    3 months ago

    I don’t know. You brought up all those other scenarios. I don’t know how they’re relevant either.

    Anyway, why would it not be a good thing if others want to put their lives on the line so that you can live your life in peace, or flee successfully if it comes to that?


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    I don’t know enough about these situations to comment on them. In isolation, a non-zero amount of suffering and death is obviously worse than none. But the world isn’t an isolated bubble like that. When you consider everything in its totality, it’s no longer so obvious what the correct objective should be, and that’s with the assumption that we can even even devise a measurable score for any of these objectives. Do we care for a lower bound on everyone’s quality of life? Do we want to maximize some quality of life average or total? Do we want to maximize the duration of human existence? Who is this “everyone”? Everyone alive today? Everyone who will ever exist? Do we give the same weight to every person? Or should we use some discounted weighting so that present humans get higher priority than future humans? Or should we put a cap on how much of our collective resources we can allocate to any given individual?




  • Exactly! You don’t. Your comment seems to imply that they are either getting disproportionately high income from reselling premium steaks (i.e. “not feeding world hunger” = only one person benefits from a large sum of money), or that that the income is very low (i.e. “not feeding world hunger” = you’re not making enough money to feed yourself), but the latter doesn’t make sense because any positive non-zero amount of money will get you more food than zero money. I don’t know if I’m missing another interpretation.







  • Of course. That’s a separate problem. I’m just commenting on the part where you say that they should give you the prompt.

    Sticking with your analogy, it’s like if you commissioned someone to paint something specific, then decided that you liked the result and wanted to share it with your friends, so you give your friend the instructions you gave to the painter instead of the painting itself.