JulianMorrison comments on Costs to (potentially) eternal life - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JulianMorrison 23 January 2010 02:10:26AM 2 points [-]

No difference. I won't buy my life with murder at any price. (Weighing one-against-many innocents is a different problem.)

And I'd be calling Omega a bastard because, as an excellent predictor, he'd know that, but decided to ruin my day by telling me anyway.

Comment author: bgrah449 23 January 2010 05:08:19AM 1 point [-]

Can you explain, then, how this is different then suicide, since your theft of her life is minimal, yet your sacrifice of your own life is large?

Comment author: JulianMorrison 23 January 2010 08:26:29PM 0 points [-]

It's not suicide, I'm just bumping into a moral absolute - I won't murder under those circumstances, so outcomes conditional on "I commit murder" are pruned from the search tree. If the only remaining outcome is "I die", then drat.