RobinHanson comments on The utility curve of the human population - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RobinHanson 26 September 2009 08:17:44PM 0 points [-]

It is important to get straight what you are varying and what you are holding constant when you vary population. In this post you seem to be talking about adding one more person without having to pay the cost of creating that person, and then considering all the effects of adding that person to our total welfare. Most philosophers instead talk about holding most everything else constant while adding one more person at some assumed standard of living.