Adriano_Mannino comments on CEV: a utilitarian critique - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Adriano_Mannino 28 January 2013 01:25:05PM 5 points [-]

Why are you so certain that a population of 0 would be a problem? In fact, there'd be no one for whom it would (could!) be a problem; no one whose values could rate that state of affairs as bad. Would it be a problem if no form of consciousness had ever come into existence? Why would that be problematic?