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Nornagest comments on Lifeism, Anti-Deathism, and Some Other Terminal-Values Rambling - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Nornagest 07 March 2011 10:58:19PM 0 points [-]

For the vast majority of possible minds I would push the button, but the human dot an a fair sized chunk of mind design space around it I'd not push the button for.

How come? This is an immensely suggestive statement, but I'm not sure where you're going with it.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 08 March 2011 05:44:42PM 0 points [-]

As I said, intuition. I can make guesses about the causes of those intuitions, and probably have a better chance at getting the right answer than an outside observer due to having the black box in question inside my head for preforming experiments on, but I don't have any direct introspective access. If you're asking for arguments that someone else should act this way as well, that's a very different question.