hairyfigment comments on Open Thread, March 1-15, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hairyfigment 16 March 2013 06:54:56AM * 0 points [-]

OK, what? When you say "worse-than-death", are you including Friendship is Optimal?

What about a variant of Hanson's future where:

versions of you repeatedly come into existence, do unfulfilling work for a while, and cease to exist
no version of you contacts any of the others
none of these future-selves directly contribute to changing this situation, but
your memories do make it into a mind that can act more freely than most or all of us today, and
the experiences of people like your other selves influence the values of this mind, and
the world stops using unhappy versions of you.

(Edited for fatigue.)

Comment author: lukeprog 12 August 2013 06:59:49PM 1 point [-]

I haven't read Friendship is Optimal, because I find it difficult to enjoy reading fiction in general.

Not sure how I feel about the described Hansonian future, actually.