Antinatalism is an incredibly dangerous ideology which preaches universal genocide, and it should be violently opposed. Consistent with antinatalist ideology, a dictator or terrorist could unleash a genetically engineered plague that wreaks comprehensive devastation.https://twitter.com/PereGrimmer/status/1040013710440493056 …
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(That is, killing could be bad even if life is bad, so that everyone just deciding not to reproduce would be *better* than killing everyone. But wiping everyone out will still be net positive utility points compared to thousands of years of future negative-utility lives).
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I posited that killing everyone would be negative-utility. But if we're being utilitarians, it would still be the right thing to do if if it's less painful than the *combined pain* of billions upon billions of lives stretching forwards for thousands upon thousands of years.
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(Not being utilitarians is fine, btw. But someone else could be).
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