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aelephant comments on DRAFT:Ethical Zombies - A Post On Reality-Fluid - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: MugaSofer 09 January 2013 01:38PM

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Comment author: aelephant 09 January 2013 10:56:50PM 1 point [-]

Could this be an example of the noncentral fallacy? One big reason humans try to avoid death is because there is only one of each individual & once they die they are gone forever. If a simulation is made of me and gets turned off, there's still one of me (the original). In this alternate reality there's also the chance that Omega could always just make another new copy. I think the two situations are dissimilar enough that our standard intuitions can't be applied.

Comment author: MugaSofer 10 January 2013 09:45:42AM -2 points [-]

Well, presumably you would care less about that death depending on how "real" it was. If there's only one of you, you care as much as you do now (obviously,) if there's two sims you care half as much and so on.