Vladimir_Nesov comments on The Moral Status of Independent Identical Copies - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 01 December 2009 09:34:41PM 0 points [-]

If you start out with a fixed "agent design" and then move it around, then preferences for the world by that agent will depend on where you put it. But given an agent embedded in the world in a certain way, it will prefer its preferences to tell the same story if you move it around (if it gets the chance of knowing about the fact that you move it around and how).