Surely, if I fork myself, each branch is just as genuinely me as any other?
Fundamental disagreement here, which I don’t expect to work through. Once you fork yourself, I would treat each copy as a unique individual. (It’s irrelevant whether one of you is “real” or not. They’re identical people, but they’re still separate people).
If those people all actually make the same decisions, great. I am not okay with exposing hundreds of copies to years of torture based on a decision you made in the comfort of your computer room.
I don’t ask you to accept that the various post-fork copies are the same person as each other, only that each is (perhaps non-transitively) the same person as the single pre-fork copy.
Suppose I don’t fork myself, but lock myself in a cage. Does the absence of an uncaged copy matter?
Fundamental disagreement here, which I don’t expect to work through. Once you fork yourself, I would treat each copy as a unique individual. (It’s irrelevant whether one of you is “real” or not. They’re identical people, but they’re still separate people).
If those people all actually make the same decisions, great. I am not okay with exposing hundreds of copies to years of torture based on a decision you made in the comfort of your computer room.
I don’t ask you to accept that the various post-fork copies are the same person as each other, only that each is (perhaps non-transitively) the same person as the single pre-fork copy.
Suppose I don’t fork myself, but lock myself in a cage. Does the absence of an uncaged copy matter?