They should have blown up the nova. Hopefully they could have found some way to warn the human race, but that isn’t too important given the way Alderson line run. They not only would have saved humanity with minimal cost of life, they would have saved Babykiller lives too. Sacrificing human lives for baby Babykiller lives is not good.
Your solution is to abandon every Babyeater baby who exists now, and every one which will exist in the future, the population of which will grow at an exponential rate as the Babyeaters explore their home starline—possibly an actual infinite number of babies—to a hellishly slow death by gradual digestion, for the sake of the however many mere billions of humans currently exist?
They should have blown up the nova. Hopefully they could have found some way to warn the human race, but that isn’t too important given the way Alderson line run. They not only would have saved humanity with minimal cost of life, they would have saved Babykiller lives too. Sacrificing human lives for baby Babykiller lives is not good.
Your solution is to abandon every Babyeater baby who exists now, and every one which will exist in the future, the population of which will grow at an exponential rate as the Babyeaters explore their home starline—possibly an actual infinite number of babies—to a hellishly slow death by gradual digestion, for the sake of the however many mere billions of humans currently exist?
I know that Eliezer Yudowsky is creating a more optimal world when I see someone on the Internet use the words “mere billions of humans”.