OrphanWilde comments on DRAFT:Ethical Zombies - A Post On Reality-Fluid - Less Wrong

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Comment author: OrphanWilde 10 January 2013 11:31:22PM 1 point [-]

As soon as you start torturing one of those identical agents, it ceases to be identical.

I guess the question from there is, does this produce a cascade of utility, as small divergences in the simulated universe produce slightly different agents for the other 6 billion people in the simulation, whose utility then exists independently?