army1987 comments on Causal Universes - LessWrong

60 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 November 2012 04:08AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 29 November 2012 11:51:37AM 3 points [-]

consequentialists believe that more lives are better

Not all of them.

Comment author: chaosmosis 29 November 2012 09:14:44PM *  2 points [-]

Sure. Again, this isn't relevant and isn't providing information that's new to me. People like Schopenhauer and Benatar might exist, but surely my overall point still stands. The focus on nitpicking is excessive and frustrating. I don't want to have to invest much time and effort into my comments on this site so that I can avoid allowing people to get distracted by side issues; I want to get my points across as efficiently as possible and without interruption.

Comment author: [deleted] 30 November 2012 12:06:19AM 1 point [-]

I was thinking more of average utilitarians than antinatalists. (I provisionally agree with average utilitarianism, and think more lives are better instrumentally but not terminally. I'm not confident that I wouldn't change my mind if I thought this stuff through, though.)