Modify the scenario to include MWI. Maybe in THIS universe you will continue to exist if you two-box, in then in the overwhelming majority of universes you will have never been created. If you one-box, then it’s likely that in the overwhelming majority of universes you do exist.
If you one-box, then it’s likely that in the overwhelming majority of universes you do exist.
This is incorrect, but I understand the spirit of what you’re trying to say (that the number of universes that I exist in is overwhelmingly larger—no matter what, I exist in an infinitesimally small number of universes).
Regardless, this interpretation still doesn’t make you cease to have ever existed. Maybe you exist less, whatever that means, but you still exist. Personally, I don’t care about existing less frequently.
Lastly, do you think this interpretation allows the problem to pertain to evolution? I still don’t think so, but the reasons are more nuanced than the reasons I think the original problem doesn’t.
I think it may. I’m still not convinced that MWI universes differ in any appreciable way at the macro level. It may be that every other instance of me lived an identical life except with slightly different atoms making up his molecules.
But in either case, I prefer maximizing meme-similar persons, not gene-similar ones, so my actions are self-consistent regardless. I’m acausally trading with an entity other than Azathoth.
I’m acausally trading with an entity other than Azathoth.
which entity are you trading with? We haven’t gone back to talking about Prometheus, have we?
I might like to increase the number of meme-similar persons in my universe, but I don’t really care about meme-similar persons in universes that can’t influence mine. Even this is something I feel relatively weakly about. It’s also just a personal difference in values, and I can reason pretending I share yours.
Modify the scenario to include MWI. Maybe in THIS universe you will continue to exist if you two-box, in then in the overwhelming majority of universes you will have never been created. If you one-box, then it’s likely that in the overwhelming majority of universes you do exist.
This is incorrect, but I understand the spirit of what you’re trying to say (that the number of universes that I exist in is overwhelmingly larger—no matter what, I exist in an infinitesimally small number of universes).
Regardless, this interpretation still doesn’t make you cease to have ever existed. Maybe you exist less, whatever that means, but you still exist. Personally, I don’t care about existing less frequently.
Lastly, do you think this interpretation allows the problem to pertain to evolution? I still don’t think so, but the reasons are more nuanced than the reasons I think the original problem doesn’t.
I think it may. I’m still not convinced that MWI universes differ in any appreciable way at the macro level. It may be that every other instance of me lived an identical life except with slightly different atoms making up his molecules.
But in either case, I prefer maximizing meme-similar persons, not gene-similar ones, so my actions are self-consistent regardless. I’m acausally trading with an entity other than Azathoth.
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which entity are you trading with? We haven’t gone back to talking about Prometheus, have we?
I might like to increase the number of meme-similar persons in my universe, but I don’t really care about meme-similar persons in universes that can’t influence mine. Even this is something I feel relatively weakly about. It’s also just a personal difference in values, and I can reason pretending I share yours.
I dunno, whichever entity can be considered the meme-equivalent of Azathoth. “Entity” should probably be in scare-quotes.