From: Jef Allbright (Groups@jefallbright.com)
Date: Sat Jun 22 2002 - 15:57:08 MDT
Eliezer -
Interesting twist, but no net difference in my opinion. For all I know, I
may be essentially a lookup table right now, and I value my "pattern" just
as much as somebody else's "pattern" that my happen to be embodied in a
different substrate.
- Jef
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: How to tell if you are a nice person
> Here's a stranger and stronger form of the question: What would you do if
> you found out that the world was a simulation and *someone else* was the
> only real person in it? Assume that we subtract from the equation your
> Cartesian knowledge that you are a real person and replace it with the
hard
> knowledge that you are a giant look-up table. What would you do? I like
to
> think that (the simulated wallpaper version of) Eliezer would spend all
> available mental energy on making that one real person's life as pleasant
as
> possible, but of course you never really know what you'll do (or the
> simulated wallpaper version of you) until the clinch.
>
> --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
>
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