From: Wei Dai (weidai@weidai.com)
Date: Mon May 26 2003 - 03:40:09 MDT
On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 11:45:39PM -0700, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> True. But wouldn't the best way to do this be to
> construct a universe in which thinking more is
> easier and find a way to transport oneself to it?
Aha, I knew it, you're one of those averagists, aren't you? (See recent
thread on "superrationality" if you don't get the reference.)
Once you construct a new universe and copy yourself into it, why would you
then delete the original in the old universe? You'd only do it if you want
to maximize average happiness, and the relatively low happiness of the
original is bringing down the average. A totalist on the other hand would
think that having intelligent life in a suboptimal universe is still
better than having a dead universe and would therefore continue to
colonize the original universe.
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