xamdam comments on Living Large - availability of life - Less Wrong

3 Post author: xamdam 21 April 2010 04:14PM

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Comment author: xamdam 21 April 2010 09:21:48PM *  3 points [-]

+1

...also making changes to yourself that you have longer time to benefit from. I think you had this in mind, but 'changes to the world' obscures the point a bit.

BTW, this 'life arbitrage' was not my main point, I was trying to highlight the biases that would prevent a person from calculating 'quantity of life' correctly even if it was +4/-1 vs +4/-4. This is a valuable related point nevertheless.