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Jonathan_Graehl comments on The Difficulties of Potential People and Decision Making - Less Wrong
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1) I wish we could do better.
2) I'm just agreeing that the "perhaps interpretable" is "definitely not the same as, except under certain assumptions", which you were well aware of.
4a) I had one too many negatives (bad edit). I was indeed making an anti-Amish suggestion. That is, to the extent that some group of people are committed to a massive future population, those that are personally intending to bring about a lower population level shouldn't necessarily be constrained in their decision making in favor of the profligate reproducers' spawn.
5) Please do continue with another post, then
It seems odd to me to value the utlity of the new Amish masses less than others', as no one is allowed to choose why they were brought into existence, or if. If we maintain a belief in an essential equality of moral worth between people, I think we would be constrained by the reproducer's offspring. Of course, I may not like that, but that's an issue to be brought up with the current Amish-spawners.
That's a reasonable suggestion. I certainly haven't complained about the teeming Amish masses before, so if I really care, I ought to first try to exert some influence now.