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Wei_Dai comments on [video] Robin Hanson: Uploads Economics 101 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 08 August 2012 03:43:45AM 2 points [-]

It might be worse for example if you are a total utilitarian and complete copies count more than copy-on-write forks.

And in case anyone is wondering, it might be better because terminating a copy-on-write fork seems less like killing someone than deleting a complete copy.