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At some point in the future, there won't be more people who will live in the future than live in the present, at which point you are allowed to improve conditio
by twic 1y ago
At some point in the future, there won't be more people who will live in the future than live in the present, at which point you are allowed to improve conditions today. Of course, by that point the human race is nearly finished, but hey.
That said, if they really thought hard about this problem, they would have come to a different conclusion:
https://theconversation.com/solve-suffering-by-blowing-up-the-universe-the-dubious-philosophy-of-human-extinction-149331 https://theconversation.com/solve-suffering-by-blowing-up-th...
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- xg15 1y agoSome time after we've colonized half the observable universe. Got it.
- imtringued 1y agoActually, you could make the case that the population won't grow over the next thousand years maybe even then thousand years, but that's the short term and therefore unimportant. (I'm not a longtermist)
- xg15 1y agoNot on earth, but my understanding was that space colonization was a big part of their plan.