From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri May 30 2003 - 09:46:20 MDT
Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
> Eliezer wrote:
>
>>>How is this different from the totalist position? Can you give a
>>>concrete scenario where your brand of altruism would lead to a
>>>different course of action from totalism?
>>
>>It's better to "move" than to "copy", because the left-behind branch
>>isn't as happy - you want the past observer-instant T0 to have all of
>>its future in T1-A, rather than splitting to T1-A and T1-B.
>>
>>And it differs from the averagist position in that Hal Finney's
>>reductio ad murderum does not apply.
>
> ### But isn't it the same as the totalist position?
The totalist position says it is better to copy than to move.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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