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

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Comment author: Pavitra 08 March 2011 06:02:56AM 0 points [-]

I don't ask you to accept that the various post-fork copies are the same person as each other, only that each is (perhaps non-transitively) the same person as the single pre-fork copy.

Suppose I don't fork myself, but lock myself in a cage. Does the absence of an uncaged copy matter?