novalis comments on Hacking the CEV for Fun and Profit - Less Wrong

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Comment author: novalis 04 June 2010 04:19:02PM 1 point [-]

I think it might be possible to patch around this by weighting people by their projected future cycle count. Otherwise, I fear that you may end up with a Repugnant Conclusion even without an adversary -- a very large number of happy emulated people running very slowly would outweigh a smaller number of equally happy people running at human-brain-speed. Of course, this still gives an advantage to the views of those who can afford more computing power, but it's a smaller advantage. And perhaps our CEV would be to at least somewhat equalize the available computing power per person.

Comment author: MugaSofer 24 January 2013 11:10:48AM -1 points [-]

Otherwise, I fear that you may end up with a Repugnant Conclusion even without an adversary -- a very large number of happy emulated people running very slowly would outweigh a smaller number of equally happy people running at human-brain-speed.

Of course, the slowest possible clock speed is ... none, or one tick per lifetime of the universe or something, so we'd all end up as frozen snapshots.