Azathoth123 comments on Neo-reactionaries, why are you neo-reactionary? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: blogospheroid 19 November 2014 05:44:31PM 1 point [-]

Not doing so might leave your AI to be vulnerable to a slower/milder version of this. Basically, if you enter a strictly egalitarian weighting, you are providing vindication to those who thoughtlessly brought out children into the world and disincentivizing, in a timeless , acausal sense, those who're acting sensibly today and restricting reproduction to children they can bring up properly.

I'm not very certain of this answer, but it is my best attempt at the qn.

Comment author: Azathoth123 20 November 2014 04:04:31AM 0 points [-]

Not to mention those who prosecuted and genocided ideological opponents.

Comment author: blogospheroid 20 November 2014 04:35:44AM 1 point [-]

Yes, that too.

Poland had used a version of that when arguing with the European union about the share in some commision, I'm not remembering what. It mentioned how much Poland's population might have been had they not been under attack from 2 fronts, the nazis and the communists.