Remember that if humanity only survives due to QI, then almost all of humanity’s total measure does not survive. We can’t observe the “universes” in which humanity is dead, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t care about them.
I care because that measure contains human beings, and I care about human beings, even ones I can’t observe.
I can’t tell you what to care about, but I repeat that “we can’t observe that measure” is not (as far as I’m concerned) a reason to jump to “I don’t care about the human beings who make up that measure”.
(I suspect there’s a sequence post that covers this better than I can, but I don’t know it offhand.)
You should care for the same reason you don’t want to die—not because being dead is so bad, but because you’d rather be living.
If you play russian roulette with a quantum coin, “you” don’t move into a different world if the gun fires. There is no immortal soul that occupies quantum states like a hermit crab, scuttling off into a different sized shell when necessary. If you don’t like dying, you won’t like getting shot.
It’s possible to construct an agent that rationally chooses quantum suicide. But this is inconsistent with not wanting to die.
Remember that if humanity only survives due to QI, then almost all of humanity’s total measure does not survive. We can’t observe the “universes” in which humanity is dead, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t care about them.
Why should I care about dead measure? Serious question.
I care because that measure contains human beings, and I care about human beings, even ones I can’t observe.
I can’t tell you what to care about, but I repeat that “we can’t observe that measure” is not (as far as I’m concerned) a reason to jump to “I don’t care about the human beings who make up that measure”.
(I suspect there’s a sequence post that covers this better than I can, but I don’t know it offhand.)
You should care for the same reason you don’t want to die—not because being dead is so bad, but because you’d rather be living.
If you play russian roulette with a quantum coin, “you” don’t move into a different world if the gun fires. There is no immortal soul that occupies quantum states like a hermit crab, scuttling off into a different sized shell when necessary. If you don’t like dying, you won’t like getting shot.
It’s possible to construct an agent that rationally chooses quantum suicide. But this is inconsistent with not wanting to die.