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

32 Post author: Wei_Dai 30 November 2009 11:41PM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 01 December 2009 10:38:55PM 3 points [-]

Yes, I should have remembered that paper, especially since Nick acknowledges me (along with Hal and Toby and others) in it.

Do you think our preference for A (speaking for those who do prefer A) is entirely accounted for by a (perhaps partial) belief in what Nick calls Unification? Or is there also an ethical element that says two identical streams of qualia is not twice as valuable as one? Do you know of any published or unpublished ideas that deal with that question?