its an extremely important topic that has extreme ramifications such as concluding that a large portion of global health and development could possibly be negative utility! It also entails a degree of misanthropy which affects how we think about X-risk and the utility of society today. If EA were to ignore this problem with my previous statements being true, most of the movement would be misguided. It is therefore an extremely important problem IMO.
WOW this is incredible. As an EA uni group organizer running a fellowship, this is insanely helpful for me. Forwarding this to my AIS uni group organizer friend!