Mark_Lu comments on A (small) critique of total utilitarianism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Mark_Lu 28 June 2012 12:58:27PM 4 points [-]

preference total utilitarianism gives credit for satisfying more preferences - and if creating more people is a way of doing this, then it's in favour

Shouldn't we then just create people with simpler and easier to satisfy preferences so that there's more preference-satisfying in the world?

Comment author: Lukas_Gloor 28 June 2012 02:48:47PM 1 point [-]

Indeed, that's a very counterintuitive conclusion. It's the reason why most preference-utilitarians I know hold a prior-existence view.