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Prismattic comments on Life Extension versus Replacement - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: Julia_Galef 30 November 2011 01:47AM

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Comment author: Prismattic 30 November 2011 04:19:37AM *  5 points [-]

Implied assumption: death causes more disutility to others than birth causes utility to others. Might be true, but ought to be included explicitly in any such calculation.

Comment author: Logos01 30 November 2011 04:25:09AM 0 points [-]

True.