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Vulture comments on Simulation argument meets decision theory - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: pallas 24 September 2014 10:47AM

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Comment author: kokotajlod 28 September 2014 10:34:03PM 6 points [-]

This is a formal version of a real-life problem I've been thinking about lately.

Should we commit to creating ancestor-simulations in the future, where those ancestor-simulations will be granted a pleasant afterlife upon what appears to their neighbors to be death? If we do, then arguably we increase the likelihood that we ourselves have a pleasant afterlife to look forward to.

Comment author: Vulture 30 September 2014 05:33:20PM 1 point [-]

I'm pretty sure there's something wrong with this argument, but I can't seem to put my finger on what it is. It reminds of this post, in a way.