altleft comments on Circular Altruism - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 January 2008 06:00PM

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Comment author: AndyC 22 April 2014 11:31:19AM 3 points [-]

I don't understand why it's supposed to be somehow better to have more people, even if they are equally happen. 10 billion happy people is better than 5 billion equally happy people? Why? It makes no intuitive sense to me, I have no innate preference between the two (all else equal), and yet I'm supposed to accept it as a premise.

Comment author: altleft 28 March 2015 04:53:18PM 0 points [-]

It makes some sense in terms of total happiness, since 10 billion happy people would give a higher total happiness than 5 billion happy people.