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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 18 November 2013 10:34:35AM 0 points [-]

Are you saying we should maximize the average utility of all humans, or of all sentient beings?

I'm not saying anything, at this point. I believe that the best population ethics is likely to be complicated, just as standard ethics are, and I haven't fully settled on either yet.

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