loup-vaillant comments on The value of Now. - Less Wrong
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It seems to me the two problems are basically equivalent (assuming Omega doesn't kill a whole universe just to restore my local state).
This also looks like an extreme version of the self-duplicating worker Robin Hanson talked about in the last Singularity Summit. The idea is to duplicate oneself many times over at the beginning of a day's work, then kill every instance but one once the shift is finished. That can yield much subjective free time, and high computational efficiency.
So I guess that some people will have no problem with Omega's dilemma, and happily chose the million. I on the other hand, feel this is just wrong.
I wonder though. Can we unbirth a child after all? Is there something we don't quite get that will get a factual answer to this seemingly moral question?