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Highlights From The Comments On The Repugnant Conclusion And WWOTF

Astral Codex Ten Podcast

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The Biggest Future Utilitarian Argument

The biggest projected future mentioned in this book is the one where humanity colonizes the entire vergo cluster and has a total population of 100 nonilion. By comparison, roughly 100 billion human beings have ever lived. Only one thousand billion billionth of all the humans across history have been born yet. The argument says that the probability of this ultra large future is proportionately ultra small. This will sound very familiar to any one who has read manifold time.

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