I’ve updated a bit over time to “okay, maybe I can just thoroughly accept that identical minds matter identically”, but I still feel a lot of resistance to that.
One thing this comment made me realize is that I feel different intuitions re: “there are a million identical people. What are the respective utility of giving one of them a candy bar, vs all of them, vs one of them getting a pinprick, vs all of them?”
vs
“You have spare compute lying around, which you might use to run a one person getting a candy, or a million, or one person getting a pinprick, or a million. How do these compare?”
I’ve updated a bit over time to “okay, maybe I can just thoroughly accept that identical minds matter identically”, but I still feel a lot of resistance to that.
One thing this comment made me realize is that I feel different intuitions re: “there are a million identical people. What are the respective utility of giving one of them a candy bar, vs all of them, vs one of them getting a pinprick, vs all of them?”
vs
“You have spare compute lying around, which you might use to run a one person getting a candy, or a million, or one person getting a pinprick, or a million. How do these compare?”