This One Weird Trick Helped Fix My Society: “That thing they’re doing over there is not for me, but it’s fine”

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First use case I felt like "This would be extremely simple and there isn't an app that does this and works exactly how I want", and this took about 5 minutes.

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TIL that everyone calling me a paid shill for defending AI water use is actually secretly funded by effective altruists. Nice try EAs but I'm onto you

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So there's this argument that utilitarianism doesn't work because (per work by behavioral economists) preferences are non-transitive. That is, you can't make a top to bottom list of preferences for each person where the higher position is always a higher preference.

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But, like, surely preferences are *pretty* transitive? You can construct weird non-transitive cases. But for most purchase you could construct a list. Like I would guess most of the time preferences lists are almost entirely transitive, no?

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