Alright. Would you take the offer if Omega promised that he would remove your memories of the agreement of having a million babies’ thumbs cut off for a scoop of ice cream right after you made the agreement, so you could enjoy your ice-cream without guilt?
no, at the time of the decision i have sensory experience of having been the cause of suffering.
I don’t feel responsibility to those who suffer in that I would choose to holodeck myself rather than stay in reality and try to fix problems. this does not mean that I will cause suffering on purpose.
a better hypothetical dilemma might be if I could ONLY get access to the holodeck if I cause others to suffer (cypher from the matrix).
Mmkay. I would say that our utility functions are pretty different, in that case, since, with regard to suffering, I value world-states according to how much suffering they contain, not according to who causes the suffering.
Alright. Would you take the offer if Omega promised that he would remove your memories of the agreement of having a million babies’ thumbs cut off for a scoop of ice cream right after you made the agreement, so you could enjoy your ice-cream without guilt?
no, at the time of the decision i have sensory experience of having been the cause of suffering.
I don’t feel responsibility to those who suffer in that I would choose to holodeck myself rather than stay in reality and try to fix problems. this does not mean that I will cause suffering on purpose.
a better hypothetical dilemma might be if I could ONLY get access to the holodeck if I cause others to suffer (cypher from the matrix).
Okay, so you would feel worse if you had caused people the same amount of suffering than you would if someone else had done so?
yes
Mmkay. I would say that our utility functions are pretty different, in that case, since, with regard to suffering, I value world-states according to how much suffering they contain, not according to who causes the suffering.