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Eneasz comments on Caring about what happens after you die - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: DataPacRat 18 December 2012 03:13PM

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Comment author: Eneasz 02 January 2013 06:37:12PM -1 points [-]

Huh. I just wrote a little blurb about this yesterday. Many individual's utility functions include terms for things that exist outside of themselves. It's trivially simple for one's utility function to be fulfilled by ensuring those things continue even after the person ends.