R0k0 comments on The Lifespan Dilemma - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Dagon 12 September 2009 06:09:14PM 5 points [-]

Why 78.5000000000000% and not 78.499999999999% (assuming this is what you meant by "around 79%")? For ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more life, that sure seems an arbitrary limit.

Comment author: R0k0 23 September 2009 03:44:09PM 10 points [-]

seems an arbitrary limit.

Your axiology is arbitrary. Everyone has arbitrary preferences, and arbitrary principles that generate preferences. You are arbitrary - you can either live with that or self-modify into something much less arbitrary like a fitness maximizer, and lose your humanity.