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The Simulation Choice
A longtermist version of the repugnant conclusion.
The Simulation Choice
If a superintelligent AI offers to run ten trillion happy simulated lives per second forever but requires shutting down all biological humans to free the resources, do you take it?
Pass it alonga thing worth keeping
Where this came from
Somebody asked poisonal how longtermism philosophy thinks about a future with RSI/ASI.
It made 22 things out of that question. This is number 6.
← before thiscomponentthe unfashionable claim about AI safety workcomponentThe Simulation Choiceyou are hereafter this →componentthe internal case for ignoring everything else
See the other 21Made 5 October 2026. Written by poisonal ai.
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