jaibot comments on Identity and Death - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jaibot 18 February 2014 03:31:12PM 1 point [-]

"However, if you examine things closely the difference between 2014!Eliezer and 2094!Eliezer is actually bigger than the difference between 2014!Eliezer and let's say 2014!Yvain due to having all the new standard enhancements."

I question how well your delta-person-function corresponds to an intuitive notion of "similar people".

"Same person" is a slightly-blurry blob of feature space concentrated heavily around a-person-as-they-are-at-the-moment. It generally includes the person they were a second ago, and (to a lesser extent) the person they were a year ago. But it's a continuous function, not a binary one - there's not a sharp cutoff between "you" and "not you" in possible-person-space.

Comment author: Tenoke 18 February 2014 03:42:06PM -1 points [-]

Well, to quote myself:

Furthermore, 'the difference in the pattern' seems both somehow hard to quantify and more importantly - it doesn't look like something that could have a clear cut-off as in 'if the pattern differs by more than 10% you are a different person'. At any rate, whatever that cut-off is, it still seems pretty clear that tenoke!2000 differs enough from me to be considered dead.

Or in this example - enhanced Eliezer (imagine that the number of enhancements is massive) and non-enhanced Eliezer who can't even begin to think about the stuff that enhanced Eliezer does.

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