simulating the same wonderful experience a billion times certainly isn’t a billion times greater than simulating it once..
I disagree but I don’t think this is really a crux. The ideal future could involve filling the universe with beings who have extremely good experiences compared to humans (and do not resemble humans at all) but their experiences are still very diverse.
And, this is sort of an unanswered question about how qualia work, but my guess is that for combinatoric reasons, you could fill the accessible universe with (say) 10^40 beings who all have different experiences where the worst experience out of all of them is only a bit worse than the best.
That’s a fair point, and I agree that it leads to a very different universe.
At that point, however, (assuming we embrace moral realism and an absolute moral value of some non-subjective definition of qualia, which seems incoherent,) it also seems to lead to a functionally unsolvable coordination problem for maximization across galaxies.
I disagree but I don’t think this is really a crux. The ideal future could involve filling the universe with beings who have extremely good experiences compared to humans (and do not resemble humans at all) but their experiences are still very diverse.
And, this is sort of an unanswered question about how qualia work, but my guess is that for combinatoric reasons, you could fill the accessible universe with (say) 10^40 beings who all have different experiences where the worst experience out of all of them is only a bit worse than the best.
That’s a fair point, and I agree that it leads to a very different universe.
At that point, however, (assuming we embrace moral realism and an absolute moral value of some non-subjective definition of qualia, which seems incoherent,) it also seems to lead to a functionally unsolvable coordination problem for maximization across galaxies.