[extropy-chat] More Measure is Better than Less (was Are ancestor simulations immoral?)

[Jef Allbright]

On 6/1/06, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at tsoft.com> wrote:
> > so if the off switch were pressed, our threads of consciousness
> > would necessarily continue forward anyway...
>
> But!  With reduced measure!  Suppose as does Tegmark that there
> is an identical you 10^10^29 away from here.  Then if someone
> here who does not exist 10^10^29 from here kills you, then your
> measure has gone down. You ought to consider that to be
> undesirable.
>
> (It is for that reason that I believe benefit to be totally additive:
> the more copies of me running, the better for me.)

Lee -

Help me understand what you meant by this.  I'm quite comfortable with
the concept of varying measure, depending on how many copies of you
are running, but it seems to be a difference that makes no
measurable(!) difference from anyone's viewpoint.

Also, your final statement seems simply tautological:

- Jef