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All of this implies you assign significant utility to the indefinite survival of humanity regardless of your personal survival, the survival of any particular persons you know, or your personal legacy and influence on that future.
I assign little utility to this. For instance I'd choose a 50% chance of extinction of humanity, with guaranteed survival of myself and friends in the event humanity survives; over a 20% chance of extinction, with another 50% chance of my death even if humanity survives (which sums to a total 60% chance of my death).
Do you have different preferences here and does that relate to our differences on the war question?
I assign a higher value to the survival of humanity than to my own personal survival/survival of my legacy. So yes we have a value disconnect.
If you value personal survival you should also value science fairly highly, as the longevity research program is a product of that as well, not to mention the basic useful health care.
Anyway we are getting fairly far off-topic. If you want to follow this further we should probably go to the open thread.
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