But after the fork, your copy will quickly become another person, won’t he? After all, he’s being tortured and you’re not, and he is probably very angry at you for making this decision.
So I guess the question is: If I donate $1 to charity for every hour you get waterboarded, and make provisions to balance out the contributions you would have made as a free person, would you do it?
In thought experiment land… maybe. I’d have to think carefully about what value I place on myself as a special case. In practice, I don’t believe that you can fully compensate for all of the unknown accomplishments I might have made to society.
But after the fork, your copy will quickly become another person, won’t he? After all, he’s being tortured and you’re not, and he is probably very angry at you for making this decision. So I guess the question is: If I donate $1 to charity for every hour you get waterboarded, and make provisions to balance out the contributions you would have made as a free person, would you do it?
In thought experiment land… maybe. I’d have to think carefully about what value I place on myself as a special case. In practice, I don’t believe that you can fully compensate for all of the unknown accomplishments I might have made to society.
Pavitra is a he? I must have guessed wrong.
It’s complicated.