Vladimir_Nesov comments on The Pascal's Wager Fallacy Fallacy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 18 March 2009 02:28:34PM 0 points [-]

@Yvain: Don't look at the future as containing you, ask what can the future do worse or better, if it's in possession of the information about you. It can reconstruct you-alive using that information, and let the future you enjoy the life in the future, or it could reconstruct you-alive and torture it for eternity. But in which of these cases the future will actually get better or worse, depending on whether you give the future the information about your structure? Is the torture-people future going to get better because you don't give them specifically the information about your brain? That torture-people future must be specifically evil if it cares so much about creating torture experience especially for the real people who lived in the past, as opposed to, say, paperclipping the universe with the torture chambers full of randomly generated people. Evil is far harder than good or mu, you have to get the future almost right for it to care about people at all, but somehow introduce a sustainable evil twist to it.