DanielLC comments on Stupid Questions June 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 31 May 2015 09:34:48PM 0 points [-]

It's not practical in the short term. Long term, I think we should build Dyson spheres or whatever else it takes to make as many happy people as possible.

What do you mean by every possible human that could exist having moral value? If you think it's bad to create them and then kill them, you're already assigning moral value. We already seem to agree on the idea that creating and then killing a person and not creating a person are morally comparable and not of equal value. The only question is which is better.

Comment author: Eitan_Zohar 01 June 2015 01:19:55PM 0 points [-]

No, I don't think that an uncreated person has value. Why would it?

Or am I misinterpreting?