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MathieuRoy comments on 2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Call For Critiques/Questions - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: MathieuRoy 14 October 2014 07:15:42PM *  -1 points [-]

I would really like to see these questions in the survey:

For the questions:

  • Give the time from your birth to your death in subjective years (so years where you are cryonically preserved don't count)
  • Give the estimate where you are 50% sure it would be less than your answer and 50% sure it would be more than your answer)

The questions are:

  • 1) How long do you think you will live?
  • 2) If your only way to die was by really wanting to die, when do you think you would die...
  • a) if you could control your aging process but the world would be otherwise unchanged?
  • b) if an AGI optimizing your utility function would be created?

And maybe also this one:

  • c) if your utility function would be maximized (regardless of actual physical laws in our universe)?

EDIT 1: I've removed this specification: where death = permanently not conscious; if you create a clone or a simulation that is not a direct upload, it doesn't count as 'still living'.
EDIT 2: I've added that one could control its aging process in 2a).

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 15 October 2014 07:36:12AM 1 point [-]

I think most people's desired life span has a lot to do with how healthy they expect to be.

Comment author: MathieuRoy 16 October 2014 02:49:40AM 0 points [-]

Good point, I edited the post to make that clear.

Comment author: Vulture 15 October 2014 07:35:36PM 0 points [-]

death = permanently not conscious; if you create a clone or a simulation that is not a direct upload, it doesn't count as 'still living'

I understand that it's part of the framing of the question, but I still think that a lot of people would take issue with this part.

Comment author: MathieuRoy 16 October 2014 02:36:19AM 0 points [-]

Is it because a lot of people think that continuing to live as a clone or a simulation is just as good as continuing to live as the original? If so, then I don't mind rephrasing what I mean by death. The important point is that I don't mean the death of the body, but rather the death of the mind.

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