CarlShulman comments on Outlawing Anthropics: An Updateless Dilemma - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 September 2009 06:31PM

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Comment author: CarlShulman 09 September 2009 06:37:42PM 1 point [-]

Maximizing total hedonic utility fails the outlawing anthropics case: substitute hedons for paperclips.

Comment author: rwallace 09 September 2009 11:02:03PM 0 points [-]

I don't think I understand your claim here. We agree that my solution works if you measure utility in paperclips? Why do you think it fails if you measure utility in hedons?