I don’t have a ratio; it’s more that I attach an additional (fixed) premium to killing off the entire human race, on top of the ordinary level of disutility I assign to killing each individual human.
(nb I’m trying to phrase this in utilitarian terms but I don’t actually consider myself a utilitarian; my true position is more what seems to be described as deontological?)
So you attach some measure of utility to the statement ‘Humanity still exists’, and then attach a probability to humanity existing outside of your light cone based on the information available; if humanity is 99% likely to exist outside of the cone, then the additional disutility of wiping out the last human in your light cone is reduced by 99%?
And the disutility of genocide and mass slaughters short of extinction remain unchanged?
I don’t have a ratio; it’s more that I attach an additional (fixed) premium to killing off the entire human race, on top of the ordinary level of disutility I assign to killing each individual human.
(nb I’m trying to phrase this in utilitarian terms but I don’t actually consider myself a utilitarian; my true position is more what seems to be described as deontological?)
So you attach some measure of utility to the statement ‘Humanity still exists’, and then attach a probability to humanity existing outside of your light cone based on the information available; if humanity is 99% likely to exist outside of the cone, then the additional disutility of wiping out the last human in your light cone is reduced by 99%?
And the disutility of genocide and mass slaughters short of extinction remain unchanged?
Yeah, that sounds like what I meant.