CharlieDavies comments on Which Parts Are "Me"? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CharlieDavies 11 November 2012 04:38:30PM 0 points [-]

Robin Hanson comments that the "I" even in a reflective person's mind is an unstable coalition.

My guess is that Eliezer knows this, and is defining his "self" to mean something like "the shifting coalition within this brain, that is trying to save the world". If this guess is wrong, I'd love to find out, this seems like the crucial bit to me.