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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xg15 8 days ago | parent | next [-]

Some time after we've colonized half the observable universe. Got it.

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imtringued 7 days ago | parent [-]

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)

	▲	xg15 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		Not on earth, but my understanding was that space colonization was a big part of their plan.

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