brainoil comments on Pascal's Muggle: Infinitesimal Priors and Strong Evidence - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 May 2013 12:43AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (404)

Sort By: Best

Show:

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: brainoil 06 May 2013 12:54:36PM * 2 points [-]

I'm not really sure that I care about duplicates that much.

Didn't you feel sad when Yoona-939 was terminated, or wish all happiness for Sonmi-451?

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 09 May 2013 10:08:52PM * 4 points [-]

All the other Yoona-939s were fine, right? And that Yoona-939 was terminated quickly enough to prevent divergence, wasn't she?

(my point is, you're making it seem like you're breaking the degeneracy by labeling them. But their being identical is deep)

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 May 2013 10:37:34PM 2 points [-]

But now she's... you know... now she's... (wipes away tears) slightly less real.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 10 May 2013 12:45:57PM 3 points [-]

You hit pretty strong diminishing returns on existence once you've hit the 'at least one copy' point.

Comment author: Jack 10 May 2013 12:51:06AM -1 points [-]

Clones aren't duplicates. They may have started out as duplicates but they were not by the time the reader is introduced to them.