hyporational comments on Rationality Quotes December 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hyporational 19 December 2013 08:17:15PM *  4 points [-]

Thanks for the ManU fan example, it helped. If we reformulate the gender identity question as "will my future self be happy if I make permanent decisions based on my current perceived identity?", we get something that makes more sense to assess probabilistically. I guess the ManU fan case could be reformulated in a similar way, but I can't imagine how the real life scenario would look like.