“value” means “net positive to the beings making decisions that impact me”. Humans claim to and behave as if they care about other humans, even when those other humans are distant statistical entities, not personally-known.
The replacement consciousnesses will almost certainly not feel the same way about “legacy beings”, and to the extent they preserve some humans, it won’t be because they care about them as people, it’ll be for more pragmatic purposes. And this is a very fragile thing, unlikely to last more than a few thousand years.
In fact I would prefer that they could get whatever they wanted without involving me, and i could get whatever I wanted without involving them.
Sure, but they can’t, and you can’t. They can only get what other humans give/trade/allow to them, and you are in the same boat. “whatever you want” includes limited exclusive-use resources, and if it’s more valuable (overall, for the utility functions of whatever’s making the decisions) to eliminate you than to share those resources, you’ll be eliminated.
“value” means “net positive to the beings making decisions that impact me”. Humans claim to and behave as if they care about other humans, even when those other humans are distant statistical entities, not personally-known.
The replacement consciousnesses will almost certainly not feel the same way about “legacy beings”, and to the extent they preserve some humans, it won’t be because they care about them as people, it’ll be for more pragmatic purposes. And this is a very fragile thing, unlikely to last more than a few thousand years.
Sure, but they can’t, and you can’t. They can only get what other humans give/trade/allow to them, and you are in the same boat. “whatever you want” includes limited exclusive-use resources, and if it’s more valuable (overall, for the utility functions of whatever’s making the decisions) to eliminate you than to share those resources, you’ll be eliminated.