I just wrote this in my next post but TLDR I think even beyond this, I have some preference for: current world continue to exist VS current world ends and is replaced with one with a similar amount of pleasure/suffering. It’s probably me just being biased, but I do still hold this somewhat.
Opportunity cost and value require a subject for whom things can be better or worse. In a lifeless universe, there are no such subjects, so nothing is lost.
Would you say that a universe with a single person who lives 1 year in happiness is equally as valuable as one in which a single person lives 1000 years in happiness?
That would be bad if for no other reason then for the opportunity cost of the lost future value of the solar system.
(although I agree that it is unnecessary to add the death-is-bad axiom, since in this case, pleasure-is-good does the work)
I just wrote this in my next post but TLDR I think even beyond this, I have some preference for: current world continue to exist VS current world ends and is replaced with one with a similar amount of pleasure/suffering. It’s probably me just being biased, but I do still hold this somewhat.
Opportunity cost and value require a subject for whom things can be better or worse. In a lifeless universe, there are no such subjects, so nothing is lost.
Would you say that a universe with a single person who lives 1 year in happiness is equally as valuable as one in which a single person lives 1000 years in happiness?