If I see myselves at different points of time as being in collusion as to how to make all of us better off, which has been a viewpoint I’ve seen taken recently, then there is some agreement between a set of sufficiently-similar agents.
I could view the terms of that agreement as “me” and then the question becomes “what do the terms of the agreement that different sufficiently-similar instances of me serve under say about this situation.”
In which case “I” want to come up with a way of deciding, for example, how much pleasure I require per unit of torture, etc. But certainly the question “Am I being tortured or pleasured” doesn’t exactly carry over.
I thought I disagreed with you but then I showed my work and it turns out I agree with you.
If I see myselves at different points of time as being in collusion as to how to make all of us better off, which has been a viewpoint I’ve seen taken recently, then there is some agreement between a set of sufficiently-similar agents.
If this is too easy, a way to make it more fun is to do the same thing but with parts of you and coalitions of parts of you, gene/meme-eye view of evolution style. Thinking about whether there’s an important metaphysical or decision theoretic sense in which an algorithm is ‘yours’ or ‘mine’ from this perspective, while seeing if it continues to add up to normality, can lead to more fun still. And if that’s still not fun enough you can get really good at the kinds of meditation that supposedly let you intuitively grok all of this nonsense and notice the subtleties from the inside! Maybe. :D
If I see myselves at different points of time as being in collusion as to how to make all of us better off, which has been a viewpoint I’ve seen taken recently, then there is some agreement between a set of sufficiently-similar agents.
I could view the terms of that agreement as “me” and then the question becomes “what do the terms of the agreement that different sufficiently-similar instances of me serve under say about this situation.”
In which case “I” want to come up with a way of deciding, for example, how much pleasure I require per unit of torture, etc. But certainly the question “Am I being tortured or pleasured” doesn’t exactly carry over.
I thought I disagreed with you but then I showed my work and it turns out I agree with you.
If this is too easy, a way to make it more fun is to do the same thing but with parts of you and coalitions of parts of you, gene/meme-eye view of evolution style. Thinking about whether there’s an important metaphysical or decision theoretic sense in which an algorithm is ‘yours’ or ‘mine’ from this perspective, while seeing if it continues to add up to normality, can lead to more fun still. And if that’s still not fun enough you can get really good at the kinds of meditation that supposedly let you intuitively grok all of this nonsense and notice the subtleties from the inside! Maybe. :D