Nisan comments on On What Selves Are - CEV sequence - Less Wrong

0 Post author: diegocaleiro 14 February 2012 07:21PM

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Comment author: Nisan 14 February 2012 09:58:27PM 2 points [-]

I appreciate the degree of care you take in your conceptual analysis, Diego.

You're pinning down a certain concept of "self", and I'm not quite sure what it's going to be used for:

  • If "selves" are to be the things alive today whose volition will be extrapolated, then as long as the set of selves contains me or people like me, I'll be happy.

  • If "selves" is supposed to refer to the set of all things whose volition ought to be extrapolated, then we ought to be careful to exclude Babyeaters and the like.