DanielLC comments on The I-Less Eye - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 09 April 2010 04:29:11AM 0 points [-]

I don't really get what you're saying.

The normal way of looking at it is that you are only going to be you in the future. The better way of looking at it is that an unknown person is equally likely any person during any period of a given length.

The results of the former don't work well. They lead to people preferentially doing things to help their future selves, rather than helping others. This is rather silly. Future you isn't you either.