It seems that their conclusion was that no amount of happy moments for people could possibly outweigh the unimaginably large quantity of suffering in the universe required to sustain those tiny flickers of merely human happiness amid the combined agony of a googolplex or more fundamental energy transitions within a universal wavefunction. There is probably some irreducible level of energy transitions required to support anything like a subjective human experience, and (in the context of the story at least) the total cost in suffering for that would be unforgivably higher.
I don’t think the first half would definitely lead to the second half, but I can certainly see how it could.
It seems that their conclusion was that no amount of happy moments for people could possibly outweigh the unimaginably large quantity of suffering in the universe required to sustain those tiny flickers of merely human happiness amid the combined agony of a googolplex or more fundamental energy transitions within a universal wavefunction. There is probably some irreducible level of energy transitions required to support anything like a subjective human experience, and (in the context of the story at least) the total cost in suffering for that would be unforgivably higher.
I don’t think the first half would definitely lead to the second half, but I can certainly see how it could.