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I think their professed utility function would be maximizing something more like Quality Adjusted Life Years, under which efficient charity efforts would most likely be more effective than subverting birth control efforts, and it's certainly within the realm of plausibility that it would be more effective than having children.
However, the usual formulations of QALYs definitely do not adequately capture my own sense of utility, at least. I can't speak for those behind the calculations.
Right. Maximizing total QALY sounds good on paper, but can probably be gamed as easily as any other utilitarianism. Say, by wire-heading or drugging. Complexity of value and such.