Tordmor comments on Open Thread: July 2010 - Less Wrong
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Because of the law of diminishing returns (marginal utility). If you have a billion humans one more (less) results in a bigger increase (decrease) in utility than if you have a trillion.
Whose utility? The extra human's utility will be the same in both cases.