While I was forced to concede defeat when we spoke about the "paradox" involving someone that has a very close to zero amount of utility constantly flipping up and down due to deception, I continue to believe that the paradox has a near-zero impact on how we should actually view a theory of ethics.
Curse you for including that disclaimer in the original post. I'm still salty about this >:(
> That doesn’t seem to be bad for them. This is so even if they derive pleasure from thinking that they know the number of atoms in the universe.
This only "seems" to not make them worse off because someone deriving anything from there being an even or odd number of atoms in the universe is absurd. However, when you assume that absurdity away, I see no reason why someone cannot be harmed by being delusional about the number of atoms in the universe (there are clearly an odd number).
While I was forced to concede defeat when we spoke about the "paradox" involving someone that has a very close to zero amount of utility constantly flipping up and down due to deception, I continue to believe that the paradox has a near-zero impact on how we should actually view a theory of ethics.
Curse you for including that disclaimer in the original post. I'm still salty about this >:(
> That doesn’t seem to be bad for them. This is so even if they derive pleasure from thinking that they know the number of atoms in the universe.
This only "seems" to not make them worse off because someone deriving anything from there being an even or odd number of atoms in the universe is absurd. However, when you assume that absurdity away, I see no reason why someone cannot be harmed by being delusional about the number of atoms in the universe (there are clearly an odd number).