The human mind contains about 10^12 or whatever bits. So there are at most 2^10^12 minds we would recognize as human. If you think that simulating the exact same mind 10 times is no better than simulating it once, and you deny the moral relevance of vast incomprehensible transhuman minds, then you have some finite bounds on your utility. Some finite set of things that might or might not be simulated. This lets you just deny that 3^^^^3 distinct humans exist in the platonic space of possible minds.
The other solution is solomonov reality fluid. Reality has some magic reality fluid that determines how real something is. A bigger universe doesn’t get more realness. It just spreads the same realness out more widely.
When you see a quantum coin get tossed, you split into 2 versions, but each of those versions is half as real. This removes any incentive to delay pleasurable experiences until after you see a quantum coin flip.
Ie otherwise, eating an icecream and then seeing 100 digits of quantum randomness would mean experiencing eating that icecream once, and seeing the randomness first would mean the universe being split into 10^100 versions of you, each of which enjoys their own ice cream. So unless you feel compelled to read pages of quantum random numbers before doing anything fun, you must be splitting up your realness between the quantum many worlds.
If you don’t split the realness in your probability distribution, you are constantly surprised how little quantum randomness you see. Ie suppose there is a 1 in 100 chance of me putting 50 digits of quantum randomness into this post. And you see I don’t. 1%*10^50 =10^48, meaning your surprise, that I didn’t add that randomness should be 1 in 10^48 if you consider all the worlds with different numbers equally real.
Now probability distribution realness doesn’t have to be the same as moral realness. There are consistent models of philosophy where these are different. But it actually works out fine if those are the same.
So if we live in a universe with a vast number of people, that universe has to split it’s realness among the people in it. Ie if there are 3^^3 people, most of them get < 1/3^^3 measure, making them almost entirely imaginary.
There are a couple of potential solutions here.
One solution is computational personhood.
The human mind contains about 10^12 or whatever bits. So there are at most 2^10^12 minds we would recognize as human. If you think that simulating the exact same mind 10 times is no better than simulating it once, and you deny the moral relevance of vast incomprehensible transhuman minds, then you have some finite bounds on your utility. Some finite set of things that might or might not be simulated. This lets you just deny that 3^^^^3 distinct humans exist in the platonic space of possible minds.
The other solution is solomonov reality fluid. Reality has some magic reality fluid that determines how real something is. A bigger universe doesn’t get more realness. It just spreads the same realness out more widely.
When you see a quantum coin get tossed, you split into 2 versions, but each of those versions is half as real. This removes any incentive to delay pleasurable experiences until after you see a quantum coin flip.
Ie otherwise, eating an icecream and then seeing 100 digits of quantum randomness would mean experiencing eating that icecream once, and seeing the randomness first would mean the universe being split into 10^100 versions of you, each of which enjoys their own ice cream. So unless you feel compelled to read pages of quantum random numbers before doing anything fun, you must be splitting up your realness between the quantum many worlds.
If you don’t split the realness in your probability distribution, you are constantly surprised how little quantum randomness you see. Ie suppose there is a 1 in 100 chance of me putting 50 digits of quantum randomness into this post. And you see I don’t. 1%*10^50 =10^48, meaning your surprise, that I didn’t add that randomness should be 1 in 10^48 if you consider all the worlds with different numbers equally real.
Now probability distribution realness doesn’t have to be the same as moral realness. There are consistent models of philosophy where these are different. But it actually works out fine if those are the same.
So if we live in a universe with a vast number of people, that universe has to split it’s realness among the people in it. Ie if there are 3^^3 people, most of them get < 1/3^^3 measure, making them almost entirely imaginary.