Comment author: JoshuaZ 17 December 2014 06:19:01PM 1 point [-]

Because ethics is essentially simplified applied modeling of other beings.

This seems like a very non-standard notion of what constitutes ethics. Can you expand on this captures the usual intuitions about what the concerns of ethics are?

Comment author: L29Ah 17 December 2014 07:44:46PM 0 points [-]

This seems like a very non-standard notion of what constitutes ethics. Can you expand on this captures the usual intuitions about what the concerns of ethics are?

The concerns of ethics for a given agent is to facilitate one to interact with others effectively, no?

Comment author: JoshuaZ 17 December 2014 01:45:58PM 0 points [-]

It does not as the other person is parseable as multiple ones as well

That's not obvious. What if one entity is parseable in such a way and another one isn't?

the corresponding ethics will be constructed from special cases of the entity's behaviour, like it was done before.

Why?

I still don't get how the anthropic principle cares about the labels we assign to stuff.

Right. They shouldn't. So situations like this one may be useful intuition pumps.

Comment author: L29Ah 17 December 2014 02:18:48PM 0 points [-]

That's not obvious. What if one entity is parseable in such a way and another one isn't?

Every human produces lots of different kinds of behaviour, so it can be modeled as a pack of specialized agents.

Why?

Because ethics is essentially simplified applied modeling of other beings.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 17 December 2014 03:28:38AM 0 points [-]

Well, if we put our dual Manfred's in one trolley car, and one person in another, then the ethics might care.

More substantially, once uploads start being a thing, the ethics of these situations will matter.

The other contexts where these issues matter is in anthropics, expectations and trying to understand what the implications of Many-Worlds are. In this case, making the separation completely classical may be helpful: when one cannot understand a complicated situation, looking at a simpler one can help.

Comment author: L29Ah 17 December 2014 08:35:56AM 0 points [-]

It does not as the other person is parseable as multiple ones as well.

Uploading is not a thing atm, and once it is viable, the corresponding ethics will be constructed from special cases of the entity's behaviour, like it was done before.

I still don't get how the anthropic principle cares about the labels we assign to stuff.

Comment author: L29Ah 16 December 2014 01:10:16PM *  1 point [-]

How many people am I?

Does it make any difference?

Comment author: Manfred 15 December 2014 11:53:57PM 1 point [-]

The key property of me in this case is the anthropic one - 'my' existence allows me to infer things about causes of my existence.

Comment author: L29Ah 16 December 2014 07:50:05AM 0 points [-]

It does not as you don't obtain any world properties that 'your' existence should reflect with such a definition.

Comment author: L29Ah 21 November 2014 07:42:36AM *  1 point [-]

Video games are nicely described by <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement#Schedules>. I'd try make the disgusting part of the gaming, like the resources spent per utility achieved and the methods they are capturing my attention, the most sailent when i go over my decision three to do something.

Regarding "learning to want", it is a matter of constructing and applying a model of your motivation (like i did ↑, but subjectively tailored).

// hey wtf lw.c doesn't respect rfc1738

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How would you build any other skill or habit? I don't really understand how the answer to your specific question would be different.

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