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Borrowing one of Hephaestus', perhaps?
Now someone just has to write a book entitled "The Rationality of Sisyphus", give it a really pretentious-sounding philosophical blurb, and then fill it with Grand Theft Robot.
He has magic powers?
Rot13'd for minor spoiling potential: Ur'f n jnet / fxvapunatre.
If you don't, you're really going to regret it in a million years.
The chance of human augmentation reaching that level within my lifespan (or even within my someone's-looking-after-my-frozen-brain-span) is, by my estimate, vanishingly low. But if you're so sure, could I borrow money from you and pay you back some ludicrously high amount in a million years' time?
More seriously: Seeing as my current brain finds regret unpleasant, that's something that reduces to my current terminal values anyway. I do consider transhuman-me close enough to current-me that I want it to be happy. But where their terminal values actually differ, I'm not so sure - even if I knew I were going to undergo augmentation.
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Rationality Quotes September 2012
Qhorin Halfhand: The Watch has given you a great gift. And you only have one thing to give in return: your life.
Jon Snow: I'd gladly give my life.
Qhorin Halfhand: I don’t want you to be glad about it! I want you to curse and fight until your heart’s done pumping.
--Game of Thrones, Season 2.
And you only have one thing to give in return: your life.
Also effort, expertise, and insider information on one of the most powerful Houses around. And magic powers.
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Rationality Quotes September 2012
If dying after a billion years doesn't sound sad to you, it's because you lack a thousand-year-old brain that can make trillion-year plans.
I agree with Plato. Will Newsome is, indeed, such a badass.
Open question: Do you care about what (your current brain predicts) your transhuman self would want?
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Rationality Quotes September 2012
My brain technically-not-a-lies to me far more than it actually lies to me.
-- Aristosophy (again)
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Rationality Quotes September 2012
One wish can achieve as much as you want. What the genie is really offering is three rounds of feedback.
WIll Newsome is such a badass.
— Plato
... which one wish, carefully phrased, could also provide.
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Rationality Quotes September 2012
"Wait, Professor... If Sisyphus had to roll the boulder up the hill over and over forever, why didn't he just program robots to roll it for him, and then spend all his time wallowing in hedonism?"
"It's a metaphor for the human struggle."
"I don't see how that changes my point."
- SMBC Comics #2719
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Game Theory As A Dark Art
the auction gains even more money from people who have seen it before than it does from naive bidders
How on Earth?
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the auction gains even more money from people who have seen it before [and are nevertheless willing to play again] than it does from naive bidders
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EDIT: Quote above is from the movie.
Verbatim from the comic:
I personally think that Watchmen is a fantastic study* on all the different ways people react to that realisation.
("Study" in the artistic sense rather than the scientific.)