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by Rickasaurus 1308 days ago
Yeah I think if you want to be an actual smartypants you need some kind of exponential discounting. There's a lot of monsters that could eat us along the way, so people that exist right now or are about to exist are WAY more important.

If you wanted to go all in maybe try to consider the number of lives weighted by the probability they exist will. Some kind of drake equation like thing.