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torekp comments on Cryonics without freezers: resurrection possibilities in a Big World - Less Wrong Discussion

40 Post author: Yvain 04 April 2012 10:48PM

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Comment author: torekp 08 April 2012 01:26:31PM *  1 point [-]

You seem to be saying that the question of whether or not a "me" should be valued is in some sense an epistemological question, while I see it as a choice of personal terminal values. The choice of terminal values is unaffected by epistemological considerations, otherwise they wouldn't be terminal values.

Wait - what? Are you partly defining terminal values via their being unaffected by epistemic considerations? This makes me want to ask a lot of questions for which I would otherwise take answers for granted. Like: are there any terminal values? Can a person choose terminal values? Do choices express values that were antecedent to the choice? Can a person have "knowledge" or some closely related goal as a personal terminal value?