Kindly comments on Discussion of Slate Star Codex: "Extremism in Thought Experiments is No Vice" - Less Wrong Discussion
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What changes is that I would like to have a million dollars as much as Joe would. Similarly, if I had to trade between Joe's desire to live and my own, the latter would win.
In another comment you claim that I do not believe my own argument. This is false. I know this because if we suppose that Joe would like to be killed, and Joe's friends would not be said if he died, then I am okay with Joe's death. So there is no other hidden factor that moves me.
I'm not sure what the observation that I do not give all of my money away to charity has to do with anything.
Um, what are you using to compare preferences across people.
How about Joe's desire to live against you desire to not have him annoy you, or to have sex with his wife, or any number of other possible motives?