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Gurkenglas comments on Potential vs already existent people and aggregation - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 04 December 2014 01:38PM

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Comment author: Gurkenglas 04 December 2014 01:59:29PM 0 points [-]

Dust speckers will say that you should choose differently when you know that you will have to choose 1.6trillion times.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 04 December 2014 03:08:47PM 0 points [-]

Yes, that's the point. But it doesn't seem there's any pressure to choose differently when creating people.