kpreid comments on The Sword of Good - Less Wrong

85 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 September 2009 12:53AM

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Comment author: kpreid 03 September 2009 01:27:45PM *  3 points [-]

Well, not dead, but “sleep[ing] until the end of the world” rather suggests that he’s not going to do any more interacting with anyone else, which is (under a principle I've attempted to develop to deal with future personhood/identity/instantiating-people problems) equivalent to him being dead (unless he can make something out of the end of the world).

[I've thought about writing up said principle, but I'm not good at the sort of discussion it would likely prompt, and it's probably too simplistic. Anyone want to see it anyway?]

Comment author: Psy-Kosh 03 September 2009 07:45:27PM 18 points [-]

I thought "end of the world" meant "end of the world as it was"... ie, "by the time he wakes back up, the spell will have completed and our friendly neighborhood dark lord will have already started fixing the place up"

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 September 2009 10:52:28PM 10 points [-]

Yup, that was the intended interpretation.