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Usul comments on Your transhuman copy is of questionable value to your meat self. - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 06 January 2016 11:20:02PM 3 points [-]

It is evading the question, but I think it is worth considering some alternative questions as well. They may be adequate for making decisions and predicting others' behavior.

Many people talk about achieving immortality through their children. They might prefer personal immortality, but they also care very much about their children, too. For example, while Robin Hanson expresses interest in "living" for thousands of years via cryonics, when he puts a number on it, he evades the controversial question of personal identity and defines success by

10. Such sims of you are as worthy as your kid of your identifying with them.

(to which he assigns 80-90%, like the other components)

Comment author: Usul 07 January 2016 02:39:15AM 1 point [-]

Thanks for the reply. Perhaps I should mention I have no children and at no point in my life or in my wife's life have either of us wanted children.