🤔 trolley problems, infinities, morality

a lot of confusion about morality seems to be related around "infinitely undesirable" outcome (ex. someone's death, vs, many losing some minor thing)
infinities have strange behaviours in a rational context
- ex. Pascal's Wager
  - god/getting-into-heaven is infinitely good, even if a tiny chance it exists, its worth it
- utilitarianism in general
but they're likely not true infinities, because most would agree that "1 person dying" is less "bad" than "5 people dying" (all else being equal)
- (whereas true infinities don't add like that)
- (Pascal's wager gets a lot more confusing if you have competing gods/heavens, with different admission rules)
the situation we might actually be in is a multi-radix(?) system
- ex. [ tier-1-bad, tier-0-bad, tier-0-good, tier-1-good]
- ie. sort-by a vector; wherein have to sort by one category before another
  - comparable within one category, but not between categories
- akin to the types of reward functions one might set up for OptaPlanner
- in the above
  - 2 tier-1-bad things is worse than 1 tier-1-bad,
  - BUT, 1 tier-1-bad is worse than ANY number of tier-0-bad, and so on
    - hence the typical unwillingness to "kill 1 healthy person to save 5"
(all this seems also related to usage of tokens in primitive economies, as discussed in Debt: The First 5000 Year; wherein first uses of something that looked like currencies where tokens - shells, special fabrics, rods - to signify infinite debts, like due to killing of someone)

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