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Debating myself on whether “extra lives lived” are as good as “deaths prevented”

Debating myself on whether “extra lives lived” are as good as “deaths prevented”

Update: 2022-03-29
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Preventing extinction would be good - but "saving 8 billion lives" good or "saving a trillion trillion trillion lives" good?

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