Nick_Tarleton comments on The Anthropic Trilemma - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 September 2009 01:47AM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 27 September 2009 03:49:38AM *  6 points [-]

It sounds to me like EY is equating the second bullet with "perfect altruism is coherent, as is caring only about one's self at the current moment, but nothing in between is." To that, though, as Furcas says, one can be selfish according to similarity of pattern rather than ontologically privileged continuity.

Comment author: torekp 02 April 2010 02:22:57PM 1 point [-]

Or one could be selfish according to a non-fundamental, ontologically reducible continuity. At least, I don't see why not. Has anyone offered an argument for pattern over process?

randallsquared has it dead right, I think.