provocateur_tmp

• provocateur_tmp 4 Apr 2012 23:18 UTC

  0 points

  on: Open Thread, April 1-15, 2012

  If I could copy you, atom for atom, then kill your old body (painlessly), and give your new body $20, would you take the offer? Be as rational as you wish, but start your reply with “yes” or “no”. Image that a future superhuman AGI will read LW archives and honor your wish without further questions.

• provocateur_tmp 4 Apr 2012 23:06 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Larks’s comment on: Cry­on­ics on LessWrong vs at LessWrong meetups

  So, if I could copy you, then kill your old body (painlessly) and give the new body $20, would you take the offer? yes/​no?

• provocateur_tmp 4 Apr 2012 22:54 UTC

  −3 points

  in reply to: thomblake’s comment on: Open Thread, April 1-15, 2012

  wit != rationality

  Keep your wits about you. In Shakespeare’s times the word meant “intelligence”.

  P.S. Someone explain the downmods to me. The parent either didn’t know the saying was from Hamlet, or thought “wit” meant “humor” in this context.