Decius comments on Population Ethics Shouldn't Be About Maximizing Utility - Less Wrong Discussion
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Is the size of the cosmological event horizon until the heat death of the local area large enough to postulate enough paperclip satisficers? Since we are dealing with finite time and space, it is not a given that a sufficiently large number of anything would be possible, and we are discussing how large numbers are counterintuititve rather than a moral point.