Larks comments on Life Extension versus Replacement - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Larks 30 November 2011 10:51:54PM 0 points [-]

I assume everyone is familiar with the following argument:

Premise: You are not indifferent about the utility of people who will come to exist, if they definitely will exist. Conclusion: You can't be in general indifferent between people existing and not existing.

World A: Person has 10 utility World B: Person does not exist World C: Person has 20 utility

By hypothesis, you're not indifferent between A and C. Hence by transitivity, you're not indifferent between both A,B and B,C.