In a society with destructive teleportation, it would probably feel weird for the first time, but I expect that after a few teleports (probably right after the first one) most people would switch to anticipating future experiences.
Then they would teach their kids that this is the obviously correct answer, and feeling otherwise would become socially inappropriate.
And the clue is, the exceptional one refusing, saying “this won’t be me, I dread the future me* being killed and replaced by that one”, is not objectively wrong. It might quickly become highly impractical for ‘him’** not to follow the trend, but if his ‘self’-empathy is focused only on his own direct physical successors, it is in some sense actually killing him if we put him in the machine. We kill him, and we create a person that’s not him in the relevant sense, as he’s currently not accepting the successor; if his empathic weight is 100% on his own direct physical successor and not the clone, we roughly 100% kill him in the relevant sense of taking away the one future life he cares about.
*‘me being destroyed’ here in sloppy speak; it’s the successor he considers his natural successor which he cares about.
In a society with destructive teleportation, it would probably feel weird for the first time, but I expect that after a few teleports (probably right after the first one) most people would switch to anticipating future experiences.
Then they would teach their kids that this is the obviously correct answer, and feeling otherwise would become socially inappropriate.
Yep.
And the clue is, the exceptional one refusing, saying “this won’t be me, I dread the future me* being killed and replaced by that one”, is not objectively wrong. It might quickly become highly impractical for ‘him’** not to follow the trend, but if his ‘self’-empathy is focused only on his own direct physical successors, it is in some sense actually killing him if we put him in the machine. We kill him, and we create a person that’s not him in the relevant sense, as he’s currently not accepting the successor; if his empathic weight is 100% on his own direct physical successor and not the clone, we roughly 100% kill him in the relevant sense of taking away the one future life he cares about.
*‘me being destroyed’ here in sloppy speak; it’s the successor he considers his natural successor which he cares about.
**‘him’ and his natural successors as he sees it.