Vladimir_Nesov comments on How To Lose 100 Karma In 6 Hours -- What Just Happened - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 12 December 2010 01:39:32AM *  1 point [-]

If existential risks are averted, you shouldn't count people, you should count goodness (that won't necessarily take the form of people or be commensurately influenced by different people). So the number of people (ems) we can fill the future with is also a conservative lower bound for that goodness, which knowably underestimates it.