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jacob_cannell comments on Crazy Ideas Thread - October 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: jacob_cannell 29 October 2015 04:30:09PM 1 point [-]

Historical consistency - an intervention like that quickly leads to a fictional world that is ranked low in the ress utility function (because people from that fictional world don't go on to create the actual future resurrection).

Comment author: Lumifer 29 October 2015 04:54:56PM 0 points [-]

So is this whole "res utility function" based on obligations arising out of acausal trades?

Comment author: jacob_cannell 29 October 2015 05:45:05PM 1 point [-]

In part but there are also can be regular causal trades between simulators within each world. For example a future simulation physically located in say china will necessarily be separate from located in canada. These simulators can trade in the more regular sense.