I would really like to see these questions in the survey:
For the questions:
Give the time from your birth to your death in subjective years (so years where you are cryonically preserved don’t count)
Give the estimate where you are 50% sure it would be less than your answer and 50% sure it would be more than your answer)
The questions are:
1) How long do you think you will live?
2) If your only way to die was by really wanting to die, when do you think you would die...
a) if you could control your aging process but the world would be otherwise unchanged?
b) if an AGI optimizing your utility function would be created?
And maybe also this one:
c) if your utility function would be maximized (regardless of actual physical laws in our universe)?
EDIT 1: I’ve removed this specification: where death = permanently not conscious; if you create a clone or a simulation that is not a direct upload, it doesn’t count as ‘still living’. EDIT 2: I’ve added that one could control its aging process in 2a).
Is it because a lot of people think that continuing to live as a clone or a simulation is just as good as continuing to live as the original? If so, then I don’t mind rephrasing what I mean by death. The important point is that I don’t mean the death of the body, but rather the death of the mind.
I would really like to see these questions in the survey:
For the questions:
Give the time from your birth to your death in subjective years (so years where you are cryonically preserved don’t count)
Give the estimate where you are 50% sure it would be less than your answer and 50% sure it would be more than your answer)
The questions are:
1) How long do you think you will live?
2) If your only way to die was by really wanting to die, when do you think you would die...
a) if you could control your aging process but the world would be otherwise unchanged?
b) if an AGI optimizing your utility function would be created?
And maybe also this one:
c) if your utility function would be maximized (regardless of actual physical laws in our universe)?
EDIT 1: I’ve removed this specification: where death = permanently not conscious; if you create a clone or a simulation that is not a direct upload, it doesn’t count as ‘still living’.
EDIT 2: I’ve added that one could control its aging process in 2a).
I think most people’s desired life span has a lot to do with how healthy they expect to be.
Good point, I edited the post to make that clear.
I understand that it’s part of the framing of the question, but I still think that a lot of people would take issue with this part.
Is it because a lot of people think that continuing to live as a clone or a simulation is just as good as continuing to live as the original? If so, then I don’t mind rephrasing what I mean by death. The important point is that I don’t mean the death of the body, but rather the death of the mind.