October 2011
4 posts
Quality vs Quantity
A thought experiment: Assume that we have some metric of human quality — whatever
you desire, be it IQ, kindness, creativity, or some more nebulous construction
of what you think makes people “good”. If there was some method which would kill
off half of humanity, but double this quantity value in all of the survivors,
would it be worth it? What if it were 30% dead and the...
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