Strange7 comments on Hedging our Bets: The Case for Pursuing Whole Brain Emulation to Safeguard Humanity's Future - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Strange7 11 March 2010 07:37:50AM 0 points [-]

I would agree that I care now about things which have obvious implications for what will happen later, and that I would not care, or care very differently, about otherwise-similar things that lacked equivalent implications.

Beyond that, since my utility function can neither be observed directly, nor measured in any meaningful sense when I'm not alive to act on it, this is a distinction without a difference.