Thank you for the thoughtful reply. I jotted down the original comment out on my phone and I am realizing it came across more argumentative than I intended. I apologize for that.
I have similar intuitions that creating a new person doesn’t make up for the badness of someone dying, but if it is better, I would like to have an idea how much better and why.
Assuming we could create new people for some cost, and that those new people have value, it would be important to be able to compare that with the cost/value of reviving someone, to most efficiently spend limited resources.
Focusing on the subject of the intervention, the value of 1000 years lived to a new person would be the same as the value of 1000 years lived to the revived person, no?
The only difference would seem to be the value to anyone else—other people who care about them.
I can’t say precisely how you would quantify that, but additional relevant factors might be
how long it might take the technology to develop, and, by that point, how many preserved people would have anyone who cared about them remaining
Thank you for the thoughtful reply. I jotted down the original comment out on my phone and I am realizing it came across more argumentative than I intended. I apologize for that.
I have similar intuitions that creating a new person doesn’t make up for the badness of someone dying, but if it is better, I would like to have an idea how much better and why.
Assuming we could create new people for some cost, and that those new people have value, it would be important to be able to compare that with the cost/value of reviving someone, to most efficiently spend limited resources.
Focusing on the subject of the intervention, the value of 1000 years lived to a new person would be the same as the value of 1000 years lived to the revived person, no?
The only difference would seem to be the value to anyone else—other people who care about them.
I can’t say precisely how you would quantify that, but additional relevant factors might be
how long it might take the technology to develop, and, by that point, how many preserved people would have anyone who cared about them remaining
the probability of revival technology working
I’m sure there’s more I haven’t thought of.