Pablo_Stafforini comments on To reduce astronomical waste: take your time, then go very fast - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 12 July 2013 07:45:14AM 0 points [-]

Life got so much simpler when I went anti-total utilitarianism

Mmh, life should be "hard" for proponents of any theory of population ethics. See Arrhenius (2000) and Blackorby, Bossert & Donaldson (2003).

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 12 July 2013 07:55:05AM 1 point [-]

Yes, but total utilitarianism has an unbounded utility function, with the present state being vanishingly low on that scale, so it pressures to expand like few other theories do.