Yeah, I think it’s a good point that stretching the replication process over time seems kind of arbitrary and might making the existence of the replica and yourself contemporaneous reduces the intuition that it is “you” who gets to live the life you wished for.
At the same time my personal intuitions (which are often different from other reasonable people :D) are actually not reduced much by the thought of a replicated copy of myself living at the same time. E.g. if I now think about a 1:1 copy of mine living a fullfilled life with his wife and children in a “parallel universe”, I feel more deeply happy about this than thinking about the same scenario for friends or strangers.
Ha well, I think you might find a fair few people share your intuition, especially in some strands of EA that intersect with transhumanism.
I don’t personally share the intuition, but I think if I did then it would also make sense to me that I would expect the replica’s satisfaction would be correspondingly reduced to the extent they know some other self that they are identified with is or was not satisfied. But I appreciate at this point we’re just getting to conflicting intuitions!
Yeah, I think it’s a good point that stretching the replication process over time seems kind of arbitrary and might making the existence of the replica and yourself contemporaneous reduces the intuition that it is “you” who gets to live the life you wished for.
At the same time my personal intuitions (which are often different from other reasonable people :D) are actually not reduced much by the thought of a replicated copy of myself living at the same time. E.g. if I now think about a 1:1 copy of mine living a fullfilled life with his wife and children in a “parallel universe”, I feel more deeply happy about this than thinking about the same scenario for friends or strangers.
Ha well, I think you might find a fair few people share your intuition, especially in some strands of EA that intersect with transhumanism.
I don’t personally share the intuition, but I think if I did then it would also make sense to me that I would expect the replica’s satisfaction would be correspondingly reduced to the extent they know some other self that they are identified with is or was not satisfied. But I appreciate at this point we’re just getting to conflicting intuitions!