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There is an unsatiating reason to want wealth that has nothing to do with greed: a classical utilitarian wants resources in order to create new happy beings.

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  1. Phil Trammell

    Economist working on the economics of transformative AI

    when I think about why it might be good to have a lot of wealth in the future as a good classical utilitarian, to me, the value is or at least one way you could have a kind of almost unsatiating uh utility function in in having wealth in the future is to create new happy beings, right? They just add to the total welfare of the world.

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    ↗The better AI gets, the smaller its share of the economy might get – Alex Imas and Phil Trammellyoutube.com

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