Blueberry comments on Welcome to Heaven - Less Wrong

23 Post author: denisbider 25 January 2010 11:22PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (242)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Blueberry 27 January 2010 07:10:54PM 4 points [-]

The semantics get easier if you think of both as being copies, so you have past-self, copy-1, and copy-2. Then you can ask which copy is you, or if they're both you. (If past-self is drunk, copy-1 is drunk, and copy-2 is sober, which copy is really more "you"?)

Comment author: MrHen 27 January 2010 07:17:04PM 1 point [-]

Yeah, actually, that helps a lot. Using that language most of the followup questions I have obvious enough to skip bringing up. Thanks.