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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.




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".


Alternately, there isn't.


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?


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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