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DanielLC comments on How best to show dying is bad - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: Zvi 08 March 2011 03:18PM

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Comment author: DanielLC 09 March 2011 11:07:30PM 1 point [-]

What are his terminal values? It wouldn't be surprising for them not to include not dying. Mine don't. But dying would most likely still be instrumentally bad. If it isn't, it would almost definitely be instrumentally good. For example, my terminal value is happiness, which you can't have if you're dead.