Tordmor comments on Open Thread: July 2010 - Less Wrong

6 Post author: komponisto 01 July 2010 09:20PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 07 July 2010 01:27:51PM -2 points [-]

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.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 07 July 2010 02:23:50PM 1 point [-]

Whose utility? The extra human's utility will be the same in both cases.