orthonormal comments on Dead men tell tales: falling out of love with SIA - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 19 February 2011 08:23:40PM 1 point [-]

I want to upvote this for the excellent anecdote, but the comment seems to go off the rails at the end. "Selfishness w.r.t. copies" and "Altruism w.r.t. copies", here, are two different utility functions that an agent could have. What do you mean by "talking directly about utility"?