AnnaSalamon comments on Compartmentalization in epistemic and instrumental rationality - Less Wrong

77 Post author: AnnaSalamon 17 September 2010 07:02AM

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Comment author: Johnicholas 18 September 2010 05:44:55AM 1 point [-]

You're right, no amendments are necessary; I was answering a subtle implication that I heard in the sentence, and which Anna Salamon probably didn't intend to put there, and it's possible that my "hearing" in this matter is faulty.

However, your comment makes me think I haven't been sufficiently clear: A "quantum" suicide strategy would be combining a lottery ticket with a device that kills you if you do not win the lottery (it doesn't really have anything to do with quantum mechanics).

If we all we cared about was anticipated sense experience, this combination might seem to be a good idea. However, it is (to my common sense, at least) a bad idea; which is an argument that we care about something more than just anticipated sense experience.

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 18 September 2010 12:59:40PM 0 points [-]

It's a good point; thanks. I had indeed missed that when I wrote the sentence.