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39 Post author: Wei_Dai 20 December 2012 06:53PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 23 December 2012 05:43:04AM 2 points [-]

Karl recently reminded me of the post Timeless Identity by Eliezer Yudkowsky, which I noticed seems to be an instance of this.

For what it is worth I didn't see Eliezer discard any values in that post---either when he first posted it or when I reread it last week. He seems to have kept all his values. Everything 'added up to normal' at the end. He just ended up in a situation where he would be somewhat more competent at expressing those values in a reductionist description.