lackofcheese comments on "Solving" selfishness for UDT - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 27 October 2014 05:51PM

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Comment author: lackofcheese 29 October 2014 08:00:17PM 1 point [-]

You definitely don't have a 50% chance of dying in the sense of "experiencing dying". In the sense of "ceasing to exist" I guess you could argue for it, but I think that it's much more reasonable to say that both past selves continue to exist as a single future self.

Regardless, this stuff may be confusing, but it's entirely conceivable that with the correct theory of personal identity we would have a single correct answer to each of these questions.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 30 October 2014 09:39:01AM 1 point [-]

Conceivable. But it doesn't seem to me that such a theory is necessary, as it's role seems merely to be able to state probabilities that don't influence actions.