Mitchell_Porter comments on Dreams of AIXI - Less Wrong

-1 Post author: jacob_cannell 30 August 2010 10:15PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (145)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 05 September 2010 09:34:23AM 3 points [-]

I doubt that. In my utility function as it is now

This "utility function" is just an intellectual construct - I could even call it an ideological construct, the ideology being "I must not die, and I must not believe anything which might make me accept death, under any circumstances" - and has nothing to do with how you would actually choose under such harsh conditions. For that matter, the whole idea of literally never dying is not in any way evidence-based, it is pure existential determination.

You are unusual in having wilfully chosen both Christianity and transhumanist immortalism. I know another transhumanist who converted to Islam, so maybe this combination of traditional religion and secular techno-transcendence has a future sociologically.