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My own feeling is that Parfit's systematic point-of-view-of- the-universe approach is a bad way to think about value and lives worth living and has consequently not been an entirely benign influence on our thinking about ethics.

"Reasons and Persons" was published in 1984, but I would choose the 1985 "Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy" as a key work to read when thinking in general terms about how one should live.

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#reasonsandpersons suggests that series-pesrsons would not lust after pre-branched-persons. I beg to differ. #rule34 says that will be a niche. series-people will want branch-virgins.
Suppose that branching happens all the time, but because branches can never agree who's on first they recollapse. But suppose you have an external agent with some attribute C ('closeness') that can be a total order on sub-branches. If external agent interacts with both, or one sub-branch you don't *need* the branches to know who is parent/child, if they can coordinate based on C. #neo #agentsmith #reasonsandpersons #operatingsystems
It's clear to me that derek parfit never encountered alan turing's morpheogenesis ideas. He should have mentioned them by now.
But who was the first who saw both in their mind at once? Surely by now that should have been someone. #reasonsandpersons
Suppose person X kidnaps person Y, cuts their brain into two pieces (mostly cortex), such that Y_left survives but Y_right survives and gives out Y's bitcoin keyphrase then dies, but the grey matter is in working condition and is given back to Y_left as free / plastic but blank memory. If separated before Y_left/Y_right could coordinate to each have their own bitcoin(via a Inquilinistic relationship https://plus.google.com/105395547687614433866/posts/CuN821zKQNY ) they could at least save half of Y's bitcoin. #reasonsandpersons
You're probably heard of "platonic" friends.  But here's some kinds of friend...

You're probably heard of "platonic" friends.  But here's some kinds of friendships you might not have heard about... Plesiobiosic Friends: You are nea... - Jeffrey Cliff - Google+

"We do not quasi-remember other people's past experiences. But we might begi...

"We do not quasi-remember other people's past experiences. But we might begin to do so. The causes of long-term memories are memory-traces. It was onc... - Jeffrey Cliff - Google+

#reasonsandpersons it is difficult to help distant people. Often much effort is wasted helping them that could go further local.
How to Convince Me That 2 + 2 = 3 - Less Wrong

In "What is Evidence?", I wrote: This is why rationalists put such a heavy premium on the paradoxical-seeming claim that a belief is only really worthwhile if

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"Could I rationally will either that none practise medicine, or that all do?" Healthcare exhibits Samaritan Problem-like symptoms. #freeforall #reasonsandpersons

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#reasonsandpersons S's criticism of P is that P fails intertemporally. But if my moral theory is true, and S's negative effects on others effects are only affects on future or past self...S fails intertemporally too.