Douglas_Knight comments on That Magical Click - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 January 2010 04:35PM

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 21 January 2010 06:48:32AM 5 points [-]

That seems natural enough to me, it's the net income of the very limited part of you that identifies as "you" because it can sometimes talk and think about abstractions.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 21 January 2010 07:48:25AM 2 points [-]

The deliberative part of "you" that thinks about cryonics may not be the same part that chooses restaurants, but doesn't it play a role in choosing apartments?

Comment author: MichaelVassar 22 January 2010 04:07:55AM 3 points [-]

Agreed, but the deliberative part may actually think that the larger and better located apartment contributes more to global utility, at least if you are the head of the Singularity Institute and you just spent the last 6 years living with a wife in 200 square feet.