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TLDR: Take the population ethics quiz here: https://mdickens.me/pop-ethics/
Population ethics is an oft-overlooked subfield within ethics. Many people hold views that they don't realize contradict each other, or that have strange implications that they wouldn't endorse if they thought about it more.
Not just that—population ethics is a BIG DEAL. A lot of ethical decisions hinge on how you think about changes in future populations....
See Response to Phil Torres’ ‘The Case Against Longtermism’ and Response to Recent Criticisms of Longtermism, including comments.
This. It was already talked and discussed a whole lot, but the worst thing about it is that it's a Salon article. Even before the fact that the news is mostly useless for reasons like this: https://www.gwern.net/Littlewood#:~:text=At a global scale%2C anything,networked global media covering
It's an article that has severe charitability issues, and it's basically as bad as a political article for explaining longtermism, which has negative value.