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Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 19 July 2010 10:18:20PM *  0 points [-]

Do you buy the argument that we should take the ~10^50 future people the universe could support into account in our expected utility calculations?

I do. In fact, I assign a person certain to be born a million years from now about the same intrinsic value as a person who exists today though there are a lot of ways in which my doing good for a person who exist today has significant insttrumental value which doing good for a person certain to be born a million years does not.