> So unless we are in a race with some aliens, it doesn't matter
It matters to the people who die early because we didn't develop a particular medical treatment. Just to pick a random example.
It matters to the people who die early because we didn't develop a particular medical treatment. Just to pick a random example.
My point was that you need to have some kind of metric (suffering per human per year?), or otherwise the "quality of life" across different population size and time span doesn't make sense.