Comment by michielper on The mystery of pain and pleasure · 2023-01-20T18:22:09.229Z · LW · GW

It seems to me that good and bad are actually easy to define indeed. Minusdash gives a definition: Good is a state an entity strives to obtain (again). This is a functional definition and that should be enough. How states are physically represented in other beings is unknown and is in my opinion irrelevant.

Comment by michielper on Book Review: Being You by Anil Seth · 2023-01-19T15:45:12.142Z · LW · GW

As Seth justly states, immediately after the cloning, all the Eva's become different persons because they acquire different experiences. They do share a common history but they will soon start telling different stories about this history just as different people do.