Dying and giving birth both seem to involve considerable suffering, so you’d need to augment your stable population with additional assumptions like ‘childbirth is rendered painless’ before it’s even a challenging question.
Because at some point it stops being least convenient and it becomes ‘let me define away any counterpoints which might matter’. Maybe quentin really did forget about birth & death as major disutility generators and pointing out that alone contributes to the discussion.
Dying and giving birth both seem to involve considerable suffering, so you’d need to augment your stable population with additional assumptions like ‘childbirth is rendered painless’ before it’s even a challenging question.
Then pretend he did. http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Least_convenient_possible_world
Because at some point it stops being least convenient and it becomes ‘let me define away any counterpoints which might matter’. Maybe quentin really did forget about birth & death as major disutility generators and pointing out that alone contributes to the discussion.