Can you win the lottery by methods such as “Program your computational environment to, if you win, make a trillion copies of yourself, and wake them up for ten seconds, long enough to experience winning the lottery. Then suspend the programs, merge them again, and start the result”?
I would much rather make a billion clones of myself whenever I experience great sex with a highly desirable partner. Point: making the clones to experiencing the lottery is about the experience and not the lottery. I’m not sure I particularly want to have orgasmic-clone-mes but if for whatever arbitrary reason I value having wireheaded simulations of myself experiencing the positive experiences I have had then I may as well do it well. I’m tempted to make a word play here on ‘getting lucky’ but the point is it is not about increasing your luck at all, in either case. It’s about experience cloning.
I would much rather make a billion clones of myself whenever I experience great sex with a highly desirable partner. Point: making the clones to experiencing the lottery is about the experience and not the lottery. I’m not sure I particularly want to have orgasmic-clone-mes but if for whatever arbitrary reason I value having wireheaded simulations of myself experiencing the positive experiences I have had then I may as well do it well. I’m tempted to make a word play here on ‘getting lucky’ but the point is it is not about increasing your luck at all, in either case. It’s about experience cloning.