I’m mostly a utilitarian too, and I mostly support taking gambles to maximize expected value...
...but I’m quite uncomfortable with having to make an arbitrarily large sacrifice (like submitting 3↑↑↑3 minds to torture) for an arbitrarily small probability (like 1/(3↑↑↑3)) of infinite value.
Moral or decision-theoretic uncertainty seems to make it reasonable to reject some wagers, at least.
Ahh yes your last paragraph is a good point that I hadn’t considered. It doesn’t convince me that I should reject the wager, but it does mean that I shouldn’t take extreme actions that go against most people’s moral beliefs in pursuit of these types of wagers.
I’m mostly a utilitarian too, and I mostly support taking gambles to maximize expected value...
...but I’m quite uncomfortable with having to make an arbitrarily large sacrifice (like submitting 3↑↑↑3 minds to torture) for an arbitrarily small probability (like 1/(3↑↑↑3)) of infinite value.
Moral or decision-theoretic uncertainty seems to make it reasonable to reject some wagers, at least.
Ahh yes your last paragraph is a good point that I hadn’t considered. It doesn’t convince me that I should reject the wager, but it does mean that I shouldn’t take extreme actions that go against most people’s moral beliefs in pursuit of these types of wagers.