Is your position consistent with effective altruism?
The trap expressed in the OP is essentially a statement that approaching a particular problem involving uploaded consciousness using the framework of effective altruism to drive decision-making led to a perverse (brains in blenders!) incentive. The options at this point are a) the perverse act is not perverse b) effective altruism does not lead to that perverse act c) effective altruism is flawed, try something else (like ‘ideological kin’ selection?)
You are unequivocal about your disinterest in being on the receiving of this brand of altruism, and have also asserted that you cooperate acausally with agents similar to you, (based on degree of similarity?) and previously asserted that an agent who shares the sum total of your life experience, less the most recent year, can be cast aside and destroyed without thought or consequence. So...do I mark you down for option c?
Is your position consistent with effective altruism?
The trap expressed in the OP is essentially a statement that approaching a particular problem involving uploaded consciousness using the framework of effective altruism to drive decision-making led to a perverse (brains in blenders!) incentive. The options at this point are a) the perverse act is not perverse b) effective altruism does not lead to that perverse act c) effective altruism is flawed, try something else (like ‘ideological kin’ selection?)
You are unequivocal about your disinterest in being on the receiving of this brand of altruism, and have also asserted that you cooperate acausally with agents similar to you, (based on degree of similarity?) and previously asserted that an agent who shares the sum total of your life experience, less the most recent year, can be cast aside and destroyed without thought or consequence. So...do I mark you down for option c?