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Comment author: ike 15 January 2015 09:53:04PM 0 points [-]

OP is assuming selfishness, which makes this True. Any PD is TPD for a selfish person. Is it still the obvious thing to do if you're selfish?

Comment author: Leonhart 15 January 2015 10:04:59PM 0 points [-]

Yes, for a copy close enough that he will do everything that I will do and nothing that I won't. In simple resource-gain scenarios like the OP's, I'm selfish relative to my value system, not relative to my locus of consciousness.

Comment author: ike 16 January 2015 02:05:43PM 0 points [-]

So we have different models of selfishness, then. My model doesn't care about anything but "me", which doesn't include clones.