Thrasymachus comments on Open Thread, February 15-29, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Thrasymachus 18 February 2012 08:41:14AM 0 points [-]

Plausibly, depending on your view of personal identity, yes.

I won't be identical to my copies, and so I think I'd play the same sorts of arguments I want to do so far - copies are potential people, and behind a veil of ignorance between whether I'd be a copy or the genuine article, the collection of people would want to mutually agree the genuine article picks the former option in Omegas gamble.

(Aside: loss/risk aversion is generally not taken to be altogether different from justice. I mean, veil of ignorance heuristic specifies a risk averse agent, and difference principle seems to be loss averse.