Another question. Imagine a universe with either only 5 or 10 people. If they’re all being tortured equally badly at a level of −100 utility, are you sure you’re indifferent as to the number of people existing? Isn’t less better here?
Yeah that’s essentially the example I mentioned that seems weirder to me, but I’m not sure, and at any rate it seems much further from the sorts of decisions I actually expect humanity to have to make than the need to avoid Malthusian futures.
Another question. Imagine a universe with either only 5 or 10 people. If they’re all being tortured equally badly at a level of −100 utility, are you sure you’re indifferent as to the number of people existing? Isn’t less better here?
Yeah that’s essentially the example I mentioned that seems weirder to me, but I’m not sure, and at any rate it seems much further from the sorts of decisions I actually expect humanity to have to make than the need to avoid Malthusian futures.