while I would reject sending my fully independent clone to hell in order to gain utility, I might agree to fully share the mental experience with the clone in hell so long as the clone also got to experience the extra utility Omega paid me to balance out hell.
This seems to contradict your earlier assertion that
the second option the same as Omega offering to clone you, put the clone in hell for a finite amount of time and then destroy it, and give you the money immediately
because if you and the clone are one and the same (no cloning happened, you were tortured and then memory-wiped), “both” of you reap the rewards.
because if you and the clone are one and the same (no cloning happened, you were tortured and then memory-wiped), “both” of you reap the rewards.
We are not the same person after the point of the decision. There’s no continuity of experience. The tortured me experiences none of the utility, and the enriched me experiences none of the torture. That was why I thought of the cloning interpretation to begin with.
This seems to contradict your earlier assertion that
because if you and the clone are one and the same (no cloning happened, you were tortured and then memory-wiped), “both” of you reap the rewards.
We are not the same person after the point of the decision. There’s no continuity of experience. The tortured me experiences none of the utility, and the enriched me experiences none of the torture. That was why I thought of the cloning interpretation to begin with.