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24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 September 2008 06:58AM

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Comment author: Carl_Shulman 25 September 2008 05:51:25PM 0 points [-]

Roko,

Who advocates that? Standard frameworks talk about world-histories, e.g. Omohundro's paper, which you use a lot. A hedonistic utilitarian wouldn't value a single state (a snapshot in time) of the universe, since experience of pleasure and the like are processes that take time to occur.