Yes its unlikely that the utility turns out literally identical. However, people enjoy having friends that aren’t just clones of themselves. (Alright, I don’t have evidence for this, but it seems like something people might enjoy) Hence it is possible for a mixture of different types of people to be happier than either type of people on their own.
If you use some computational theories of consciousness, there is no morally meaningful difference between one mind and two copies of the same mind.
However, people enjoy having friends that aren’t just clones of themselves.
This is true, yeah, but I think that’s more a natural human trait than something intrinsic to sentient life. It’s possible that entirely different forms of life would still be happier with different types of people, but if that happiness is what we value, wouldn’t replicating it directly achieve the same effect?
Yes its unlikely that the utility turns out literally identical. However, people enjoy having friends that aren’t just clones of themselves. (Alright, I don’t have evidence for this, but it seems like something people might enjoy) Hence it is possible for a mixture of different types of people to be happier than either type of people on their own.
If you use some computational theories of consciousness, there is no morally meaningful difference between one mind and two copies of the same mind.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/03/15/answer-to-job/
Given the large but finite resources of reality, it is optimal to create a fair bit of harmless variation.
This is true, yeah, but I think that’s more a natural human trait than something intrinsic to sentient life. It’s possible that entirely different forms of life would still be happier with different types of people, but if that happiness is what we value, wouldn’t replicating it directly achieve the same effect?