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by wilg 1008 days ago
It's just a question of if you value other people existing or not. If you don't, focus on per-capita happiness, if you do then you focus on meeting a minimum threshold of happiness for everyone.

I don't see how you couldn't value other people existing – I think they have just as much of a right to experience the universe as I do.
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mvdtnz 1008 days ago
There's a vast chasm between "other people deserve to exist" and "we should 100x our population in order to increase the marginal happiness pool".
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wilg 1008 days ago
Alternately, there isn't.
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mhb 1008 days ago
Has that belief led you to a lifestyle in which you are just barely happier than miserable so that you can lift as many others as you can out of misery?
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wilg 1008 days ago
No, but doing so would be consistent with my beliefs and I think it would be considered admirable to most people.
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