I can see what point you were trying to make....I think.
But I happen to have a significant distrust of classic utilitarianism: if you sum up the happiness of a society with a finite chance of lasting forever, and subtract the sum of all the pain...you get infinity-infinity, which is conditionally convergent. the simplest patch is to insert a very, very, VERY tiny factor, reducing the weight of future societal happiness in your computation…
Any attempt to translate to so many people …places my intuition in charge of setting the summation up.
or else, y’know, “dust specks, because that happens to include the ability to get off this planet and produce more humans than atoms in the currently visible universe”.
3^^^3 people? …
I can see what point you were trying to make....I think.
But I happen to have a significant distrust of classic utilitarianism: if you sum up the happiness of a society with a finite chance of lasting forever, and subtract the sum of all the pain...you get infinity-infinity, which is conditionally convergent. the simplest patch is to insert a very, very, VERY tiny factor, reducing the weight of future societal happiness in your computation… Any attempt to translate to so many people …places my intuition in charge of setting the summation up.
or else, y’know, “dust specks, because that happens to include the ability to get off this planet and produce more humans than atoms in the currently visible universe”.