You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

TheOtherDave comments on Brief response to kalla724 on preserving personal identity with vitrification - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: Synaptic 16 June 2012 01:28AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (32)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 16 June 2012 05:42:25PM 4 points [-]

I've argued elsewhere that this is the proper way to think about preserving identity. Being me is a property that various things possess to varying degrees, and to the extent to which I value continuing to exist I should value the extent to which things in the future are me.