Alicorn comments on What makes you YOU? For non-deists only. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 11 November 2009 03:32:49PM *  1 point [-]

"You" sure seemed like it referred to only one of the postduplication individuals here:

In the second option, you are not affected in any way.

(This when one of me seems to be quite seriously affected, in that you plan to torture and kill that one.)

And here:

You won't privilege what you actually experience.

(This when I do privilege what I actually experience, and simply think of "I" in these futures as a plural.)

you don't know in advance which of ten thousand copies you'll be

(But I'll be all of them! It's not as though 9,999 of these people are p-zombies or strangers or even just brand-new genetically identical twins! They're my futures!)