Baughn comments on To capture anti-death intuitions, include memory in utilitarianism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Baughn 15 January 2014 09:16:03PM 0 points [-]

Well...

Honestly, I'm not quite sure about that one. Making a child, knowing ve'll eventually die? When there are probably other universes in which that is not the case? I don't feel very safe in judging that question, one way or the other.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 15 January 2014 09:28:34PM *  1 point [-]

1) I'm a lot less confident in the existence of true immortality. The second law of thermodynamics is highly generalizable, and to get around it you need infinite enthalpy sources.

2) I like living enough to prefer it and then dying to never living. I think I can give my kids enough of a head start that they'll be able to reach the same choice.