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Peter Singer on Utilitarianism, Influence, and Controversial Ideas
Conversations with Tyler
The Paradox of Maximizing Expected Utility
I wonder sometimes how much we can have in ethics that truly separates morality from partiality. Is there a case where you don't want to maximize expected utility? I think it says more about gambling than it does about being a utilitarian. If you just created twin Earth I guess you could but for the real world we can't keep doubling utility and so we shouldn't do double or nothing.
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