Peter_de_Blanc comments on Timeless Decision Theory: Problems I Can't Solve - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 July 2009 12:02AM

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Comment author: Peter_de_Blanc 20 July 2009 06:03:19PM 2 points [-]

In what sense is that a future self?

Comment author: JamesAndrix 20 July 2009 06:33:41PM 1 point [-]

In the paperclip->apple scenario, in the sense that it retains the memory and inherits the assets of the original, and everything else that keeps you 'you' when you start wanting something different.

In the simulation scenario, I'm not sure.