hegemonicon comments on Should humanity give birth to a galactic civilization? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hegemonicon 17 August 2010 05:18:29PM *  3 points [-]

what if it is more likely that maximizing utility not only fails but rather it turns out that the overall utility is minimized

If it does turn out that the overwhelmingly likely future is one of extreme negative utility, voluntary extinction (given some set of assumptions) IS maximizing utility.

Also, if the example really is as tangental as you're implying, it should probably not account for 95% of the text (and the title, and the links) in your post.