bambi comments on Timeless Control - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 June 2008 05:16AM

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Comment author: bambi 07 June 2008 02:52:18PM 0 points [-]

Unknown, your comment strikes me as a good way of looking at it.

The "me of now" as a region of configuration space contains residue of causal relationships to other regions of configuration space ("the past" and my memories of it). And the timeless probability field on configuration space causally connects the "me of now" to the "future" (other regions of configuration space). Just because this is true, and -- even more profoundly -- even though the "me of now" configuration space region has no special status (no shining "moment in the sun" as the privileged focus of a global clock ticking a path through configuration space), I am still what I am and I do what I do (from a local perspective which is all I have detailed information about), which includes making decisions.

Our decisions are based on what we know and believe, so an acceptance of the viewpoint Eliezer has been putting forth is likely to have *some* impact on decisions we make... I wonder what that impact is, and what should it be?