It doesn’t necessarily follow that I would forego immortality in exchange for subjecting myself to it.
But then you’re talking about putting a future-you into a situation where you know that experiences will dramatically reshape that future-you’s priorities and values, to the point where TheOtherDave(torture1000)’s decisions and preferences would diverge markedly from your current ones. I think making this decision for TheOtherDave(torture1000) is a lot like making it for someone else, given that you know TheOtherDave(torture1000) is going to object violently to this decision.
It doesn’t necessarily follow that I would forego immortality in exchange for subjecting myself to it.
But then you’re talking about putting a future-you into a situation where you know that experiences will dramatically reshape that future-you’s priorities and values, to the point where TheOtherDave(torture1000)’s decisions and preferences would diverge markedly from your current ones. I think making this decision for TheOtherDave(torture1000) is a lot like making it for someone else, given that you know TheOtherDave(torture1000) is going to object violently to this decision.