JGWeissman comments on The Lifespan Dilemma - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 September 2009 06:45PM

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Comment author: AdeleneDawner 10 September 2009 09:04:43PM 12 points [-]

Doesn't many-worlds solve this neatly? Thinking of it as 99.9999999% of the mes sacrificing ourselves so that the other 0.00000001% can live a ridiculously long time makes sense to me. The problem comes when you favor this-you over all the other instances of yourself.

Or maybe there's a reason I stay away from this kind of thing. <shrug>

Comment author: JGWeissman 11 September 2009 10:11:53PM 2 points [-]

Not all probabilities are quantum probabilities.

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 11 September 2009 11:47:12PM 1 point [-]

True, I was assuming a quantum probability.