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Re:Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults? by twic on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @03:03PM (#44880490)
At some point in the future, there won't be more people who will live in the future than live in the present, at which point you are allowed to improve conditions today. Of course, by that point the human race is nearly finished, but hey.

That said, if they really thought hard about this problem, they would have come to a different conclusion:

https://theconversation.com/solve-suffering-by-blowing-up-th...

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Re:Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults? by xg15 on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @03:17PM (#44880661)
Some time after we've colonized the entire observable universe. Got it.
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Re:Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults? by imtringued on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @02:44AM (#44885316)
Actually, you could make the case that the population won't grow over the next thousand years maybe even then thousand years, but that's the short term and therefore unimportant.

(I'm not a longtermist)

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Re:Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults? by xg15 on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @03:07AM (#44885448)
Not on earth, but my understanding was that space colonization was a big part of their plan.
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