Halfwitz comments on I need a protocol for dangerous or disconcerting ideas. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jacob_cannell 13 July 2015 02:22:56AM 0 points [-]

The branches wherein you die are effectively discounted, because there is no future you who will remember your current self. The same applies to lesser degree to branches where you suffer brain/memory damage, to varying partial degree.

The problem with the whole QM suicide/immortality is that it assumes that we shouldn't care about measure, and we shouldn't care at all about universes that lack ourselves as future observers. Both of these notions are probably wrong from the perspective of normal human utility functions.

Comment author: Halfwitz 13 July 2015 02:32:24AM *  0 points [-]

I'm with Yvain on measure, I just can't bring myself to care.

Comment author: jacob_cannell 13 July 2015 02:41:37AM 0 points [-]

Relative measure matters, but its equivalent to probability and thus adds up to normality.