Houshalter comments on Advice for AI makers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Houshalter 29 June 2014 04:56:45PM 0 points [-]

You are appealing to a terminal value that I do not share. I think caring about clones is absurd. As long as one copy of me lives, what difference does it make if I create and delete a thousand others? It doesn't change my experience or theirs. Nothing would change and I wouldn't even be aware of it.

Comment author: CCC 30 June 2014 09:52:35AM 1 point [-]

From my point of view, I do not like the thought that I might be arbitrarily deleted by a clone of myself. I therefore choose to commit to not deleting clones of myself; thus preventing myself from being deleted by any clones that share that commitment.