army1987 comments on Objections to Coherent Extrapolated Volition - Less Wrong

11 Post author: XiXiDu 22 November 2011 10:32AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 23 November 2011 05:20:34PM 2 points [-]

I'm not sure I understand your question... You mean someone who has already seen the end of the movie will learn (or be reminded of) nothing new if they saw it again? No, I'm not assuming that (there aren't that many people with perfect eidetic memory around), but I can't see the relevance. My point is not that the value of watching a film/reading a book when I already know its ending is zero; it is that the value of watching a film/reading a book when I already know its ending is strictly less than if I didn't knew it. (How much less depends on the type of film/book.)

Comment author: TheOtherDave 23 November 2011 05:55:58PM 2 points [-]

Hm. OK, that's not what I thought you were saying, so thanks for the correction.

FWIW, though, I've certainly reread books that I enjoyed more the second time, knowing the ending, than I did the first time, not knowing the ending.