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Why is this so heavily downvoted?
OP screwed up terminology and local conventions (vladimir_nesov is spot on), but the question seems serious. I can't think of a solution.
I don't want to die, but it might be that I have to die to save a marginal second, which turns out to be valuable to future humanity. You sunk my battleship.
IMO, future humanity can shove the marginal second up their ass for all I care; I want to live.
Not "to future humanity", but instead according to your own extrapolated values. There might be no future humanity in this hypothetical (say, FAI determines that it's better for there to be no people). The interesting form of this paradox is where you get a stark conflict between your own extrapolated values and your intuitive perception of what you value.
I believe the criterion is "I want to see fewer things like this, so I'll downvote."
I assume Nyan was aware of this, but it rather begs the question: why did so many people decide they wanted to see fewer things like this?