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Question: I did bring up the idea of infinite Fun v. Frank's life. That seems to me like a tiering decisioin: it's not at all clear to me that a diverging utility like "Immortal + Omega-guaranteed indefinite Fun" is worth Frank's life, which implies that Frank's life is at least on an omega-tier.
So you wouldn't trade whatever amount of time Frank as left, which is at most measured in decades, against a literal eternity of Fun?
If I was Frank in this scenario, I would tell the other guy to accept the deal.
I see my room needs to be even more "white."
... The answer, I suppose, would be "yes." But this wasn't meant to be an immortal v. mortal life thing, just the comparison of two lives - so the obvious steelman is, what if Frank's immortal, and just very, very bored?