Manfred comments on Utilitarianism and Relativity Realism - Less Wrong

-3 Post author: TruePath 23 June 2014 07:12PM

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Comment author: Manfred 23 June 2014 10:28:31PM *  0 points [-]

Caring about times within some time limit in a single reference frame is sufficient.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 24 June 2014 12:51:06AM 2 points [-]

The problem with a time limit is that it encourages you to not care what happens afterwards.

Comment author: Manfred 24 June 2014 03:56:59AM 0 points [-]

Hm, I think any integrable time-discounting function would also work. And the trouble with an AI that doesn't time-discount is that it gets Pascal's mugged by literally any chance of eternity.