@rechelon ehhh, I'm not an antinatalist either - someone definitely has to do it until we fix mortality - but it's definitely not for me
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@puellavulnerata Well the way I count it basically everyone doing core Tor work has a life-saved metric over the hundreds, so...3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@rechelon I'm quite disinclined to regard actually-existing and potential lives as things one can trade off against each other like that.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@puellavulnerata In the "collapse civ to save small bands" versus "hold our hope of saving civ because trillions future lives" calculation2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@puellavulnerata Many primmies believe civ is 99.99% certain to be doomed. Later collapse means more death + fewer survivors.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@rechelon Simply put, I'm not in the position to choose any of those outcomes, and if I were, I can't conceive of any response other than...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@rechelon ...to recoil in horror at the prospect of actively choosing to be on the causal path to mass death, regardless of...2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@rechelon ...any such calculus of lives lost vs. lives saved.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@puellavulnerata @rechelon yeah. hit the brakes, sure, but don't kill the passenger b/c you lack imagination to conceive of their survival
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