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

102 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 02 February 2010 10:10AM

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Comment author: Unknowns 03 February 2010 10:16:37AM 2 points [-]

Right, the argument assumes he doesn't care about his copies. The problem is that he can't distinguish himself from his copies. He and the copies both say to themselves, "Am I the original, or a copy?" And there's no way of knowing, so each of them is subjectively in danger of being tortured.