While non-utilitarians may fancy themselves immune to the utility monster challenge, most reasonable views are in fact susceptible to various degrees

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• Utilitarian theory is embarrassed by the possibility of utility monsters who get enormously greater sums of utility from any sacrifice of others than these others lose.quote0.789
  Nozick's formulation of the utility monster problem, the foundational thought experiment for the paper
• This theory doesn't have to correspond exactly to human behavior or social customs; we only need analogs useful for program correctness.claim0.739
  The speech act theory for programming can be simpler than human models.
• We never allowed the simple-minded pure efficiency argument to dictate, since this would have killed the structure.quote0.737
  Explicit rejection of efficiency-only thinking in favor of life-preserving design.
• Smith & Boyd (1991) criteria are irrelevant across the vast majority of the space of possible agents.claim0.737
  Dismissal of earlier criteria as too narrow.
• Curiosity, insight, decision-making, and diverse phenomena can all be accommodated by a single imperative: minimization of expected free energy (resolution of uncertainty).claim0.736
  Central thesis of the paper unifying cognitive phenomena under one objective function
• The issue is not whether the process will produce living structure if done faithfully — it will — but whether the maker has the stamina and will to keep rejecting versions that lack life.claim0.733
  Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.
• Evasive responses harm transparency and helpfulness; non-evasive harmless responses are preferable for both safety and utility.claim0.732
  Motivation for training a non-evasive assistant, and crowdworker instructions favor non-evasive responses.
• Choice among alternatives as a group design strategy does not work realistically because alternatives differ on too many dimensions simultaneously for consensus to formclaim0.732
  Alexander's critique of conventional democratic design processes based on multiple-choice selection.