Debating myself on whether “extra lives lived” are as good as “deaths prevented”

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Debating myself on whether “extra lives lived” are as good as “deaths prevented”

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Mar 29, 2022

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Preventing extinction would be good - but "saving 8 billion lives" good or "saving a trillion trillion trillion lives" good?https://www.cold-takes.com/debating-myself-on-whether-extra-lives-lived-are-as-good-as-deaths-prevented/

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Mar 29, 2022

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