You might think that what a computer, what a chess-playing computer does is just this: it calculates every possible branch, every possible game from here on out.

你可能认为,一台电脑,或一台下棋电脑所做的工作就是这样,计算出所有可能的下法,以及与之对应的各种可能的棋局

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We're able to evaluate lives from here on out.

还能评估从现在开始的人生。

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On the other hand, if the balance from here on out would've been negative, then it's good for me that I died now instead of being kept alive with a life not worth living.

另一方面，如果从现在开始计算其结果是负数，那么我现在死去就是好事,因为我不用不值地活着。

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Which of these branches that are available to me, the branches of my life story, which is the one in which the future from here on out ?" holds more pleasure and holds less pain?"

我能得到哪些分支，我的人生故事的分支，从这里起步的哪一种未来,有更多快乐更少痛苦“

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