[ExI] Consequentialist world improvement

[Dave Sill]

On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:

> So in terms of deaths, fixing (or even denting) ageing, malnutrition,
> infectious diseases and lifestyle causes is a far more important activity
> than winning wars or stopping terrorists.


Except that if you applied the war budget to anti-aging, nutrition,
fighting disease through medication and vaccination, and lifestyle
improvement, you'd save far more lives than just the war casualties
averted. Assuming, of course, that the nutrition and lifestyle
"improvements" promoted by the government were actually improvements...

-Dave
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