wedrifid comments on Preference For (Many) Future Worlds - Less Wrong

18 Post author: wedrifid 15 July 2011 11:31PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 17 July 2011 05:59:47AM 1 point [-]

Why are they not the same thing? (Or, manifestations of the same thing?)

Because there is one guy who is averaging some metric based on every person in the population and there is a different guy who is averaging some metric about future outcomes of himself excluding those where he is dead.

The similarities seem to be along the lines of "do silly math then decide to kill losers".