Eneasz comments on You're in Newcomb's Box - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eneasz 02 February 2011 11:50:20PM 1 point [-]

I think it may. I'm still not convinced that MWI universes differ in any appreciable way at the macro level. It may be that every other instance of me lived an identical life except with slightly different atoms making up his molecules.

But in either case, I prefer maximizing meme-similar persons, not gene-similar ones, so my actions are self-consistent regardless. I'm acausally trading with an entity other than Azathoth.

Comment author: datadataeverywhere 03 February 2011 12:29:18AM 1 point [-]

I followed you until

I'm acausally trading with an entity other than Azathoth.

which entity are you trading with? We haven't gone back to talking about Prometheus, have we?

I might like to increase the number of meme-similar persons in my universe, but I don't really care about meme-similar persons in universes that can't influence mine. Even this is something I feel relatively weakly about. It's also just a personal difference in values, and I can reason pretending I share yours.

Comment author: Eneasz 03 February 2011 04:51:05AM 0 points [-]

I dunno, whichever entity can be considered the meme-equivalent of Azathoth. "Entity" should probably be in scare-quotes.