alt Hacker NewsEven a consequentialist should accept that it would have taken 16 years to realize it was actually a good thing to do with orange peels.
Even a consequentialist should accept that it would have taken 16 years to realize it was actually a good thing to do with orange peels.
The article says they returned after that long having forgotten about the experiment. I think they would have recognized there were positive results long before that if someone happened to be checking in at say Year 2, 5 or 10. It not like the land was still barren piles of orange peel at Year 14 and then suddenly Yahtzee!