Jonathan_Graehl comments on On the Anthropic Trilemma - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 23 May 2011 08:05:51AM *  0 points [-]

If you're searching for how I disagree with you, I don't (I thought I made that clear with "as you allow"). At first you were talking about a perfectly symmetrical situation; I was interested in a less symmetrical one.

Is there an additional fact? No, and at first I was tempted to think that it matters how if there's a continuous experience vs. a discontinuity where a scanned copy is woken up, (i.e. the original isn't destroyed, so I might care more, as the original, about what fate lies in store for it). But I think that difference doesn't even matter to me, assuming perfect copying, of course.

To indulge in another shift: maybe I'll create slave copies of myself one day. I certainly won't be allocating an even share of my resources to them (they'll hate me for it) :)