Doug_S. comments on Beyond the Reach of God - Less Wrong

66 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 October 2008 03:42PM

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Comment author: Doug_S. 06 October 2008 06:16:00AM 0 points [-]

No, for him it won't be better.

Well, there's also the perspective of the newborn and the person it grows up into; if we consider that perspective, it probably would prefer that it exists. I don't want The Future to contain "me"; I want it to contain someone better than "me". (Or at least happier, considering that I would prefer to not have existed at all.) And I really doubt that my frozen brain will be of much help to The Future in achieving that goal.