Karl comments on The Empty White Room: Surreal Utilities - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Karl 24 July 2013 02:37:42PM 1 point [-]

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.

Comment author: linkhyrule5 24 July 2013 06:27:50PM 0 points [-]

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?