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Nisan comments on The Mere Cable Channel Addition Paradox - Less Wrong Discussion

64 Post author: Ghatanathoah 26 July 2012 07:20AM

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Comment author: Nisan 27 July 2012 10:15:49PM 1 point [-]

Parfit was not "merely adding" people to the population. He was also adding resources.

Parfit could easily reply that in world A, there are unused resources beyond the reach of the population, and in world A+ these resources are used by the extra people.

Comment author: Ghatanathoah 28 July 2012 06:47:18AM -1 points [-]

From the perspective of the thought experiment adding resources that didn't exist before and making resources that are already there available are not different in any significant way.

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