From: Nick Tarleton (nickptar@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2008 - 16:23:55 MDT
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Jeff L Jones <jeff@spoonless.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Nick Tarleton <nickptar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Jeff L Jones <jeff@spoonless.net> wrote:
> > > I guess my question would be why you value your life more than your
> > > copy's, if you are both identiical aside from a few neurons here and
> > > there? They both should have roughly the same value to you.
> >
> > But when one exists, the other has very little marginal value. I think.
>
> That's not relevant to this particular question. We're comparing the
> value of one being alive while the other is dead, versus the other
> being alive while the first is dead. I claim these have roughly the
> same value, until their minds diverge more.
Oh, sorry, I misunderstood your point. I agree.
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