I’m especially skeptical about intuitions very different from past or current situations. In me, there’s an availability heuristic where I incorrectly visualize some examples that are too close to reality, use my intuitions for those, then try to apply a corrective factor.
I don’t have a good model for moral value of near-identical copies. My current belief is that quantum-level duplication makes them one being, and any other level of similarity diverges fast enough to make them distinct entities, each with full weight. I definitely don’t think that positive and negative experiences are different on this topic.
This goes directly to the idea of “done it all”. There are a (literally) infinite number of variations of experience, and we can never run out. There’ll always be good experiences that we don’t have enough consciousnesses to have. There is no maximum high score (except possibly maximum temporal density of reachable experiences until the end of reality). You can never step in the same river twice, and entities can never have the same experience twice.
I MAY share your intuition (or I may be misreading) that there is more negative than positive in entity-experience space. My take from that is that we need to be somewhat careful in creating more experiences, but not that it needs to be perfect, nor that prioritizing elimination of negative overwhelms creation of positive.
Edit: I do think I understand where the “repeated negative is bad, repeated positive is neutral” intuition comes from. In my personal life, I prefer variety of positive experiences over repetition. My hedonic adaptation seems to be faster (and perhaps more complete a regression to the norm) for good things than for pain. I don’t think that reasoning applies to cases of distinct-but-similar individuals in the same way it does for distinct-but-similar experiences in an individual.
I’m especially skeptical about intuitions very different from past or current situations. In me, there’s an availability heuristic where I incorrectly visualize some examples that are too close to reality, use my intuitions for those, then try to apply a corrective factor.
I don’t have a good model for moral value of near-identical copies. My current belief is that quantum-level duplication makes them one being, and any other level of similarity diverges fast enough to make them distinct entities, each with full weight. I definitely don’t think that positive and negative experiences are different on this topic.
This goes directly to the idea of “done it all”. There are a (literally) infinite number of variations of experience, and we can never run out. There’ll always be good experiences that we don’t have enough consciousnesses to have. There is no maximum high score (except possibly maximum temporal density of reachable experiences until the end of reality). You can never step in the same river twice, and entities can never have the same experience twice.
I MAY share your intuition (or I may be misreading) that there is more negative than positive in entity-experience space. My take from that is that we need to be somewhat careful in creating more experiences, but not that it needs to be perfect, nor that prioritizing elimination of negative overwhelms creation of positive.
Edit: I do think I understand where the “repeated negative is bad, repeated positive is neutral” intuition comes from. In my personal life, I prefer variety of positive experiences over repetition. My hedonic adaptation seems to be faster (and perhaps more complete a regression to the norm) for good things than for pain. I don’t think that reasoning applies to cases of distinct-but-similar individuals in the same way it does for distinct-but-similar experiences in an individual.