pjeby comments on Morality as Parfitian-filtered Decision Theory? - Less Wrong

24 Post author: SilasBarta 30 August 2010 09:37PM

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Comment author: pjeby 31 August 2010 06:02:34PM *  0 points [-]

Natural selection is the Omega, and the mind propagated through generations by natural selection is the hitchhiker. The mind only gets to the "decide to pay"/"decide to care for children" if it had the right decision theory before the "rescue"/"copy to next generation".

You should put that in the article. (True, it's a causal iteration rather than an acausal prediction. But it'll still make the article clearer.)

Comment author: SilasBarta 31 August 2010 06:12:09PM 0 points [-]

Thanks for the suggestion, I've added it.