As long as utility does not turn negative at some point, G0W51′s statement is correct. The degree of utility is irrelevant under an infinite time horizon as total utility will always reach infinity eventually.
There are such things as convergent series. If the maximum utility you can get from each millennium of experience is (e.g.) only 99% that of the previous millennium, then the utility of an infinitely long life is only 100x that of its first millennium.
You’re assuming zero variation to which the phrase diminishing returns, referring to a model of a real world effect, definitely does not imply. At some point, variation exceeds the effect size of convergence in which case the important figure becomes whether the variation is net positive or net negative.
As long as utility does not turn negative at some point, G0W51′s statement is correct. The degree of utility is irrelevant under an infinite time horizon as total utility will always reach infinity eventually.
There are such things as convergent series. If the maximum utility you can get from each millennium of experience is (e.g.) only 99% that of the previous millennium, then the utility of an infinitely long life is only 100x that of its first millennium.
You’re assuming zero variation to which the phrase diminishing returns, referring to a model of a real world effect, definitely does not imply. At some point, variation exceeds the effect size of convergence in which case the important figure becomes whether the variation is net positive or net negative.