The false dichotomy is when to do something about it. The solution to the above problem would be that those last 100 entities were never created. That does not require us to stop creating entities right now. If the entity is never created, its utility is undefined. That’s why this is a false dichotomy: you say do something now or never do something, when we could wait until very near the ultimate point of badness to remedy the problem.
Look, I’m using the same argumentation as EY and others, that the existence of those being depends on us, just in reverse. Why not their suffering too? I never said this is sound, I don’t think it is. I argued before that all those problems only arise if you try to please imaginary entities.
The false dichotomy is when to do something about it. The solution to the above problem would be that those last 100 entities were never created. That does not require us to stop creating entities right now. If the entity is never created, its utility is undefined. That’s why this is a false dichotomy: you say do something now or never do something, when we could wait until very near the ultimate point of badness to remedy the problem.
Look, I’m using the same argumentation as EY and others, that the existence of those being depends on us, just in reverse. Why not their suffering too? I never said this is sound, I don’t think it is. I argued before that all those problems only arise if you try to please imaginary entities.