steven comments on For The People Who Are Still Alive - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 December 2008 05:13PM

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Comment author: steven 14 December 2008 05:45:12PM 13 points [-]

I'm completely not getting this. If all possible mind-histories are instantiated at least once, and their being instantiated at least once is all that matters, then how does anything we do matter?

If you became convinced that people had not just little checkmarks but little continuous dials representing their degree of existence (as measured by algorithmic complexity), how would that change your goals?