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DanielLC comments on Open Thread March 31 - April 7 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: FiftyTwo 04 April 2014 06:26:55PM 3 points [-]

How do people respond to the repugnant conclusion?

Comment author: DanielLC 08 April 2014 06:06:19PM 0 points [-]

I have seen it suggested that what people think of when they hear "a life barely worth living" is a live on the edge of suicide, which is well past not worth living. As such, it's not surprising that you wouldn't want a world full of people like that.

If the lives are worth living, then it seems to me intuitively obvious that sufficiently many can be arbitrarily valuable.