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.
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.
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.