Cyan comments on A Normative Rule for Decision-Changing Metrics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cyan 05 August 2009 11:24:23PM *  2 points [-]

The idea of fractional people is less common that the idea that personhood is a cluster of properties in thingspace, and various beings partake of those properties to a greater or lesser extent.

This seems to carve reality at its joints more than the idea of fractional people, but is certainly still problematic.