so half of matt experiences bajillions of years of post singularity awesomeness but half of him experiences only being plucked from normal experience, then the letter, then death? that sounds lie it is reducing your own utility.
The “half” that gets the awesomeness is by far the larger half. I do feel that I would rather not be put in the situation I described, but I noticed that this could be interpreted as inconsistent with my expressed desire to know that I’m about to die conditional on it being true.
The trick is to evaluate the future with your current utility, not by the utility of future yous. Similarly, don’t wirehead or commit suicide expecting to live “quantumly.”
EDIT: Actually this might be the wrong trick depending on what you meant. You might have to use the trick of representing multiple instances of a person as frequencies (i.e. not normalized until the end).
so half of matt experiences bajillions of years of post singularity awesomeness but half of him experiences only being plucked from normal experience, then the letter, then death? that sounds lie it is reducing your own utility.
The “half” that gets the awesomeness is by far the larger half. I do feel that I would rather not be put in the situation I described, but I noticed that this could be interpreted as inconsistent with my expressed desire to know that I’m about to die conditional on it being true.
Only if you make all sorts of unwaranted assumptions about several things.
The trick is to evaluate the future with your current utility, not by the utility of future yous. Similarly, don’t wirehead or commit suicide expecting to live “quantumly.”
EDIT: Actually this might be the wrong trick depending on what you meant. You might have to use the trick of representing multiple instances of a person as frequencies (i.e. not normalized until the end).