Yeah, I still think it's true, although I'd assign lower certainty. (And my certainty in the first place isn't 100%.) But that's not the totality of my reasoning, I also have libertarian-ish deontological concerns. (I didn't get into that aspect with @arjunxkapoor.) Basically...
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Yesssss but it's a combination, the deontological side (put simply, it violates the NAP to create life) is also important to me
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What do you get if you combine the ethics of Sonya here and Robin Hanson? Gamma radiation?
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heh I think Robin Hanson is at odds with Sonya actually http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/12/shoo-libertarian-trolls.html …
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Yes, Robin Hanson thinks it'd be Extremely Good to have trillions of emulated humans working in slave-like conditions, because the marginal value of each is still positive. The joke is that his ethics and Sonya's have a physical reaction like antimatter and matter.
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<taleb voice> imbecile, it's about the tail risk, not the expected value
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now that you put it that way, Mr. Taleb... actually yeah
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the extension to that is that the objection to being born mostly goes away if you can get genuinely costfree exit- bound losses while exposing to upside
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You also probably want your bound to be secret and random (with light tails?), to prevent gaming and blackmail.
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you wouldn't have a sufferometer that kills you if you go above a certain level, you would just have the right to exercise your option as you saw fit- unclear how this makes you more exploitable than in current world
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Free exit feels like keeping your steering wheel in Game of Chicken idk.
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(And a "sufferometer" would be the most useful form of that for situations of partial incapacity, where exit is least free now...)
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(Total suffering observer-moments seems more important than average propensity over those observer-moments.)
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