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

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

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 16 July 2011 10:58:23PM 3 points [-]

Here we see just as many futures in which Blue ends up with the jackpot. And this time Blue manages not to kill himself in branches where he loses. Blue is sad for a while until he makes some more money and gets over it. He isn’t dead. This is obviously just plain better.

If you are an average utilitarian, then it is better to kill yourself if you lose in quantum roulette. It increases your average utility. This is the same reasoning that makes an average utilitarian prefer to kill off the poorer members of society.

Comment author: lessdazed 17 July 2011 11:54:40AM 3 points [-]

This is the same reasoning that makes an average utilitarian prefer to kill off the poorer members of society.

Can you name that person? I might like to talk with him or her.