wedrifid comments on Preferences without Existence - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Coscott 08 February 2014 01:34AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 08 February 2014 11:05:58AM 0 points [-]

However, even if the multiverse is infinite, or not even a set, I as a finite mind can only look at finite pieces of it. My caring function looks at a small piece of the multiverse, because it cannot comprehend the whole thing.

Your limitation does not inherently prohibit you from having a caring function that looks at the entire multiverse. The constraint is on how complex the pattern of evaluation of the features of the multiverse can be.

Comment author: Coscott 08 February 2014 05:18:32PM 0 points [-]

Fair enough. I was aware of that, but did not bother to write it out. Sorry.