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Dias comments on Compartmentalizing: Effective Altruism and Abortion - Less Wrong Discussion

23 Post author: Dias 04 January 2015 11:48PM

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Comment author: Dias 08 January 2015 01:42:34AM 1 point [-]

Else we'd say abstinence is fairly reprehensible, since it also prevents the creation of new people.

Yeah, I realise they're quite related positions. I often feel guilty for not having had children yet.

Can we factor that in?

My guess is that because everything is linear, treating a fetus as being like 0.3-person-weight will give you the same answer as treating them as having 1-person-weight with probability 30%