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Jeremy Bentham actually mentioned this in the initial form of utilitarianism. He said that the "felicific calculus" required one to take into account fecundity, which was a measure of how likely a pleasurable/painful experience would cause more pleasure/pain in the future, and purity, which measured how likely a pleasurable experience was to not be followed by a painful one, or vice versa.