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

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Comment author: jhuffman 26 January 2010 08:56:31PM 0 points [-]

An alternate scenario: Omega forms an army and conscripts three people into it, and orders them to kill you. Omega then hands you a knife, with which you can certainly dispatch the unarmed, untrained conscripts who obediently follow their commander's wishes (despite vague apprehensions about war and violence and lack of a specific understanding for why they are to kill you).

Unfortunately, Omega is a very compelling commander and no surrender or retreat is possible. Its kill or be killed.

What do you do?