Comic #7034: repugnant

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Panel 1: Person 1 (left): "ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH PARFIT'S 'REPUGNANT CONCLUSION'? WHERE UTILITARIANS ARE FORCED TO ADMIT THAT, SAY, A SOCIETY OF A TRILLION SLIGHTLY HAPPY PEOPLE MIGHT BE PREFERABLE TO A SOCIETY OF A THOUSAND BLISSED OUT PEOPLE?"

Person 2 (center): "PFFT, THAT'S DUMB."

Panel 2: Person 2 continues: "THE HUMAN MIND IS A THREE-POUND HALLUCINATION. BLISSING OUT IS AN ENGINEERING CHALLENGE."

Panel 3: Person 2 continues: "A SOCIETY OF A TRILLION PEOPLE IS A GALAXY-SPANNING PLANET-MANIPULATING TECHNO-MIRACLE. IF EINSTEIN WAS ONE IN A BILLION, THEY HAVE A THOUSAND EINSTEINS. IF THEY HAVEN'T YET WORKED OUT BRAIN MANIPULATION, THEY WILL ABOUT FOUR SECONDS AFTER THEY REALIZE THEY WANT TO."

Panel 4: Person 2 continues: "MEANWHILE, THE THOUSAND BLISSED OUT PEOPLE ARE A SMALL ENOUGH SOCIETY THAT THEY CAN'T POSSIBLY SUPPORT BLISS FOR LONG. NO COMPLEX DIVISION OF LABOR MEANS NO MODERN MEDICINE, NO ROBUST SUPPLY CHAINS OF FOOD. TRAGEDY WILL HIT THEM AND THEY'LL HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO ENDURE SORROW."

Panel 5: Person 2 continues: "THE REPUGNANT CONCLUSION IS AN UNSTABLE EQUILIBRIUM. IF YOU INSTANTANEOUSLY CREATED IT IN SIMULATION, IT WOULD IMMEDIATELY CEASE ITS REPUGNANCE."

Panel 6: Person 1 (left): "WHEN YOU PUT YOUR ECON IN MY PHILOSOPHY IT MAKES ME FEEL GROSS."

Person 2 (center): "GROW UP."

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