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That's a justifiable error, but I don't see how it's pessimistic.
"Pessimistic" is a loaded term and I'm not sure if it's all that useful in the context of this discussion in the first place.
It's crucial to the original point that Eliezer was making, which was differentiating technological pessimism from technological optimism.
This isn't technology, and though it makes a difference to the universe as a whole, it wouldn't be better or worse for us either way.