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capybaralet comments on A Somewhat Vague Proposal for Grounding Ethics in Physics - Less Wrong Discussion

-3 Post author: capybaralet 27 January 2015 05:45AM

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Comment author: capybaralet 28 January 2015 03:10:23AM -2 points [-]

Maybe tell me why I should? My time is valuable.

Comment author: jmmcd 28 January 2015 09:41:26AM *  1 point [-]

I'm afraid I won't have time to give you more help. There's a short summary of each sequence under the link at the top of the page, so it won't take you forever to see the relevance.

EDIT: you're wondering elsewhere in the thread why you're not being well received. It's because your post doesn't make contact with what other people have thought on the topic.

Comment author: capybaralet 21 August 2015 05:35:29PM 0 points [-]

I put "enjoy itself" in quotes, because I don't mean it literally. The questions that that sequence addresses according to the summary don't seem relevant to what I am trying to get at.

I guess I need to be more precise. I just mean how can we maximize the integral of experience through time (whether we let experience take negative values is a detail). This was one of Tegmark's proposals in that paper, already, except he is writing in terms of a final goal instead of a process, which was the point of my post...

"The amount of consciousness in our Universe, which Giulio Tononi has argued corresponds to integrated information"