Unknown, your comment strikes me as a good way of looking at it.
The “me of now” as a region of configuration space contains residue of causal relationships to other regions of configuration space (“the past” and my memories of it). And the timeless probability field on configuration space causally connects the “me of now” to the “future” (other regions of configuration space). Just because this is true, and—even more profoundly—even though the “me of now” configuration space region has no special status (no shining “moment in the sun” as the privileged focus of a global clock ticking a path through configuration space), I am still what I am and I do what I do (from a local perspective which is all I have detailed information about), which includes making decisions.
Our decisions are based on what we know and believe, so an acceptance of the viewpoint Eliezer has been putting forth is likely to have some impact on decisions we make… I wonder what that impact is, and what should it be?
Unknown, your comment strikes me as a good way of looking at it.
The “me of now” as a region of configuration space contains residue of causal relationships to other regions of configuration space (“the past” and my memories of it). And the timeless probability field on configuration space causally connects the “me of now” to the “future” (other regions of configuration space). Just because this is true, and—even more profoundly—even though the “me of now” configuration space region has no special status (no shining “moment in the sun” as the privileged focus of a global clock ticking a path through configuration space), I am still what I am and I do what I do (from a local perspective which is all I have detailed information about), which includes making decisions.
Our decisions are based on what we know and believe, so an acceptance of the viewpoint Eliezer has been putting forth is likely to have some impact on decisions we make… I wonder what that impact is, and what should it be?