@walterkirn The shades down phenomenon is so strange to me.
People pay big money for bars and rooftops with a view.
And then when they have the best view from 30,000 feet, they close the window. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Once again I find that I'm among the five or six people on a packed plane who care to look out the window at views unavailable to humankind for almost all of our history on earth
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@jessesingal Yes! This is the unjustified assumption at the heart of so many population ethics puzzles. “Lives worth creating” is an incoherent concept.
@SamHarrisOrg@jessesingal The obvious answer is nothing is wrong with this. Isn’t this kind of a best-case scenario given that we all die eventually? Added bonus of there being nothing to miss out on as you made it to the end of history. What is the end game for longtermism?