From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Mon May 26 2003 - 08:03:03 MDT
On Mon, 26 May 2003, Wei Dai, commenting on my comments about migrating
into alternate universes wrote:
> 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.)
Wei, I haven't been following the SR thread, but may take a look given
your comments.
> Once you construct a new universe and copy yourself into it, why would you
> then delete the original in the old universe?
I wasn't thinking in terms of "copying" but in terms of "migrating".
Why would one want to remain in an old klunky sup-optimal universe
if one could live in a better optimized universe? I can't imagine
a reason for leaving behind a copy of myself in this universe if
I can create one where the speed of light is 10E9 or 10E12 km/sec
and migrate to it.
Now of course I'd bring along many of my ExI friends with the
possible exception of Eliezer since in *my* "ideal" universe
there is no SysOp overlord running around managing things.
I suspect there may be some personal preference issues
involved in universe architectures and what one defines
as "optimal".
Robert
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