RE: Status of Superrationality

From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Fri May 30 2003 - 12:15:22 MDT

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    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?

    Rafal

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