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siduri comments on The non-painless upload - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: Prismattic 15 February 2011 04:23AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 24 February 2011 10:06:29PM 1 point [-]

It doesn't necessarily follow that I would forego immortality in exchange for subjecting myself to it.

But then you're talking about putting a future-you into a situation where you know that experiences will dramatically reshape that future-you's priorities and values, to the point where TheOtherDave(torture1000)'s decisions and preferences would diverge markedly from your current ones. I think making this decision for TheOtherDave(torture1000) is a lot like making it for someone else, given that you know TheOtherDave(torture1000) is going to object violently to this decision.