[ExI] Next moment, everything around you will probably change

[Russell Wallace]

On 6/18/07, Jef Allbright <jef at jefallbright.net> wrote:
>
> Personal identity is about agency.  Similarity is only a special case.
>

This seems consistent with my view that for practical decision-making, in
cases sufficiently different from the ancestral environment that our evolved
anticipation heuristics aren't useful, it's best to just forget about
anticipation altogether, take the expected objective state of affairs and
apply your utility function.
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