Requesting advice on a very minor and irrelevant ethical question that's relevant to some fiction I'm writing.
The character involved has the power to "reset" the universe, changing it to a universe identical to some previous time, except that the character himself (if he's still there- if he isn't he's killed himself) retains all his memories as they were rather than them changing.
Primarily, I'm thinking through the ethical implications here. I'm not good with this sort of thing, so could somebody talk me through the implications if the character follows Lesswrong ethics?
I say the extent to which he has "killed" people is dependent on how much he diverges the new universe.
As in, Person A has some value between "Dead" and "Alive" which depends on the extent to which they differ from Person A' as a result of the reset.
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