Do people in these parts think that creating new people is a moral good? If so, is it because of utilitarian considerations; i.e. “overall utility is the sum of all people’s utility; therefore we should create more people?” Conversely, if you are a utilitarian who sums the utilities of all people, why aren’t you vigorously combating falling birth-rates in developed countries? Perhaps you are? Perhaps most people here are not utilitarians of this sort?
Do people in these parts think that creating new people is a moral good? If so, is it because of utilitarian considerations; i.e. “overall utility is the sum of all people’s utility; therefore we should create more people?” Conversely, if you are a utilitarian who sums the utilities of all people, why aren’t you vigorously combating falling birth-rates in developed countries? Perhaps you are? Perhaps most people here are not utilitarians of this sort?
That topic is full of a lot of confusion and everyone seems to have different intuitions.
I for one am not proper utilitarian because it seems unnaturally simple (when we have no reason to suspect that human value should be simple).
But an additional awesome person seems like a good thing, if it doesn’t make the world suck more.
I am (as much as I can) vigorously trying to make lots of money to fund positive-singularity research.