endoself comments on Preference For (Many) Future Worlds - Less Wrong
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I will assume we are only considering the well being of the possible people, not their outward consequences of their existence because that simplifies things and that seems to be implicit here.
Yes.
As long as his life will be better than not living, yes. It seems strange to want a being not to exist if ey will enjoy eir life, ceteris paribus.
I have tentatively bitten the bullet and decided to consider them equivalent. Death is only bad because of the life that otherwise could have been lived.
Doesn't this lead to requiring support for increasing human population as much as possible, up to the point where resources-per-person makes life just barely more pleasant than not living, but no more so?