Open Thread, March 1-15, 2013

Jayson_Virissimo

If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post, even in Discussion, it goes here.

So are you saying the P(worse-than-death|revived) and the P(better-than-death|revived) probabilities are of similar magnitude?

Yes. Like, maybe the latter probability is only 10 or 100 times greater than the former probability.

This seems strangely averse to bad outcomes to me. Are you taking into account that the ratio between the goodness of the best possible experiences and the badness of the worst possible experiences (per second, and per year) should be much closer to 1:1 than the ratio of the most intense per second experiences we observe today, for reasons discussed in this post?

2hairyfigment13y

OK, what? When you say "worse-than-death", are you including Friendship is Optimal? What about a variant of Hanson's future where: * versions of you repeatedly come into existence, do unfulfilling work for a while, and cease to exist * no version of you contacts any of the others * none of these future-selves directly contribute to changing this situation, but * your memories do make it into a mind that can act more freely than most or all of us today, and * the experiences of people like your other selves influence the values of this mind, and * the world stops using unhappy versions of you. (Edited for fatigue.)

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