Vladimir_Nesov comments on If it were morally correct to kill everyone on earth, would you do it? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 01 February 2013 01:28:38PM *  3 points [-]

it might be that I have to die to save a marginal second, which turns out to be valuable to future humanity

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.