Vladimir_Nesov comments on Exterminating life is rational - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 12 August 2009 02:34:19PM 2 points [-]

Cooperation is a different consideration from preference. You can prefer only to keep your own "body" in certain dynamics, no matter what happens to the rest of the world, and still benefit the most from, roughly speaking, helping other agents. Which can include occasional self-sacrifice a la counterfactual mugging.