Rationality Quotes September 2012

Jayson_Virissimo

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Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules:

Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)
Do not quote yourself
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

Because I would wish to kill myself eventually? It's hard to imagine that I would do that, faced with unlimited wishes. If I got bored, I could just wish the boredom away.

Though on reflection this wish needs a safeguard against infinite recursion, and a bliss-universe for any simulated copies of me the genie creates to determine what my wishes would be.

If you did eventually wish for death, then you would have judged that death is the best thing you can wish for, after having tried as many alternatives as possible.

Are you going to try to use your prior (I don't want to die) to argue with your future self who has experienced the results (and determines that you would be happier dying right now than getting any wish)?

3faul_sname14y

In a sufficiently bad situation, you may wish for the genie to kill you because you think that's your only wish. It's not likely for any given wish, but would happen eventually (and ends the recursion, so that's one of the few stable wishes).