FeepingCreature comments on Forked Russian Roulette and Anticipation of Survival - Less Wrong

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Comment author: FeepingCreature 06 April 2012 10:14:03AM 2 points [-]

I'm not sure if I would.

Comment author: Logos01 06 April 2012 12:43:47PM 4 points [-]

It's the same argument though.

How much money would I have to pay you for you to let me rape you in a way that causes no physical trauma, after dosing you with a drug that prevents you from remembering the hour before or after it?

Would that dollar amount change if I told you I had already given you the drug?

The problem I see is your treatment of this arrangement as a "black box" of you[entering] and you[exiting]. But this is illegitimate. There were ten rounds of you[copy-that-dies] that would also be you[entering].

Have you read EY's writings on timeless decision theory? It seems to me that this is a variation.