JamesAndrix comments on The AI in a box boxes you - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JamesAndrix 02 February 2010 06:48:56PM 4 points [-]

This reduces to whether you are willing to be tortured to save the world from an unfriendly AI.

Even if the torture of a trillion copies of you outweighs the death of humanity, it is not outweighed by a trillion choices to go through it to save humanity.

To the extent that your copies are a moral burden, they also get a vote.