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

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Comment author: Psychohistorian 17 August 2010 09:39:44PM 0 points [-]

The false dichotomy is when to do something about it. The solution to the above problem would be that those last 100 entities were never created. That does not require us to stop creating entities right now. If the entity is never created, its utility is undefined. That's why this is a false dichotomy: you say do something now or never do something, when we could wait until very near the ultimate point of badness to remedy the problem.