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army1987 comments on Under-acknowledged Value Differences - Less Wrong Discussion

47 Post author: Wei_Dai 12 September 2012 10:02PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 21 December 2012 07:06:20PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, I hadn't thought about that -- though IIRC educated men also have fewer children in average. (And personally I lean more to average utilitarianism than total utilitarianism at the moment.)

Comment author: gwern 21 December 2012 08:26:03PM 0 points [-]

Men don't get hit as hard, IIRC. And it's not like men have ever been bottlenecks to reproduction - an educated woman can just go use a sperm bank (significantly better than an old husband in terms of birth defects), engage one-night stands, marry downwards, etc.