CarlShulman comments on Cryonics without freezers: resurrection possibilities in a Big World - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CarlShulman 19 April 2012 01:27:48AM 3 points [-]

or are you just focusing on the worlds where they are there to pluck because it seems like we can't do nearly as much if the stars aren't real? Because I think I've come up with some good arguments against the latter

Let's hear them.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 19 April 2012 02:24:41AM 2 points [-]

Forthcoming in the next year or so, in my treatise on theology & decision theory & cosmology & moral philosophy, which for better or worse I am going to write in English and not in Latin.

But anyway, I'll say now that my arguments don't work for utilitarians, at least for preference utilitarianism the way it's normally considered. Even if the argument's valid it still probably doesn't sway people who are using e.g. the parliamentary meta-moral system and who give much weight to utilitarian intuitions.

Comment author: [deleted] 19 April 2012 02:33:48AM 3 points [-]

which for better or worse I am going to write in English and not in Latin.

Oh thank all the gods of counterfactual violence.