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Nisan comments on Cryonics as Charity - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Nisan 11 November 2012 08:59:50PM 2 points [-]

would give future people the option to run revived people instead of new people, but I don't think it affects the overall number emulated.

I'm confused. This argument seems to assume that creating a new person and letting them live for a year has the same value as letting an already-existing person exist for a year. But this is absurd.

Comment author: jkaufman 12 November 2012 01:14:10PM 3 points [-]

It is based on the idea that most of what matters is human-years-experienced, weighted by how good those years are. I don't think that's absurd.

Comment author: [deleted] 14 November 2012 10:58:57PM 4 points [-]

We totally need a UFAI optimizing for this, just for the inevitable stage of countless factory-grown dopamine-fed, endorphin-drinking genetically-hyperhedonic infants being raised in superstimulating creches for a year before all of their nociceptors are rejiggered to create oxytocin cascade and they're loaded on a conveyor belt bound for the incinerator.

Comment author: jkaufman 17 November 2012 02:40:44AM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure those count as very good human-years-experienced.

Comment author: [deleted] 17 November 2012 03:52:45AM 1 point [-]

Don't knock it 'til you've tried it.

Comment author: Nisan 12 November 2012 06:31:21PM 0 points [-]

Thanks for linking your thoughts on this matter.

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