Don’t forget to you are considering precluding medicine that could save or extend all the lives. Theoretically every living human. The “gain” is solely in the loss of future generations unborn who might exist in worlds with safe AGI.
And that’s worth a lot. I am a living human being, evolved to desire the life and flourishing of living human beings. Ensuring a future for humanity is far more important than whether any number of individuals alive today die. I am far more concerned with extending the timeline of humanity than maximizing any short term parameters.
Don’t forget to you are considering precluding medicine that could save or extend all the lives. Theoretically every living human. The “gain” is solely in the loss of future generations unborn who might exist in worlds with safe AGI.
And that’s worth a lot. I am a living human being, evolved to desire the life and flourishing of living human beings. Ensuring a future for humanity is far more important than whether any number of individuals alive today die. I am far more concerned with extending the timeline of humanity than maximizing any short term parameters.