gwern comments on Open thread, August 19-25, 2013 - Less Wrong

2 Post author: David_Gerard 19 August 2013 06:58AM

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Comment author: gwern 25 August 2013 02:42:56PM 3 points [-]

Does this mean that I should attribute zero negative utility to dust speck going into my eye?

You could consider the analogous problem of waking up during surgery & then forgetting it afterwards.