MaoShan comments on The Fabric of Real Things - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MaoShan 13 October 2012 04:42:18AM *  3 points [-]

You would refuse either way if you enjoy the fact that your daughter is alive, because she would not cease to exist to her own senses, only yours. Only if your sole reason for preferring her to be alive is to interact with you personally, then you would accept the offer, also assuming that you do not fear social repercussions for your decision. I had an interesting conversation with my own daughter when she was 9 about being put into a virtual reality machine and whether it mattered if her friends outside the machine died as long as they were real and alive to her senses in the machine. She said she would be fine with that only if the machine could rewrite her pre-machine memories to erase any guilt.