On some level and timescale, we can’t really separate economic questions from any other decisions we’re interested in. “why would someone do a thing” is a pretty big question in any domain.
For this specifically, there are a couple of distinct hurdles:
what does it cost and who’s willing to scan YOU?
Note: in no case is it actually you—it’s some future version of you who’s lived and died. The you that is now disappears every night and a slight modification awakes in the morning.
what does it cost and who’s willing to store YOU until someone is willing and able to run sims?
What does it cost to run you, at what level of completeness and time factor, and who is willing and able to do so?
For all current humans, they will not be scanned. For MOST current humans, not even future iterations that identify as them will be scanned. It’s extremely hard to predict the resource needs and availability to guess at what percentage of scans will be run, let alone for how long or how often. Or how often they’ll be branched and reset, or any other option for what to do with such a dataset.
On some level and timescale, we can’t really separate economic questions from any other decisions we’re interested in. “why would someone do a thing” is a pretty big question in any domain.
For this specifically, there are a couple of distinct hurdles:
what does it cost and who’s willing to scan YOU?
Note: in no case is it actually you—it’s some future version of you who’s lived and died. The you that is now disappears every night and a slight modification awakes in the morning.
what does it cost and who’s willing to store YOU until someone is willing and able to run sims?
What does it cost to run you, at what level of completeness and time factor, and who is willing and able to do so?
For all current humans, they will not be scanned. For MOST current humans, not even future iterations that identify as them will be scanned. It’s extremely hard to predict the resource needs and availability to guess at what percentage of scans will be run, let alone for how long or how often. Or how often they’ll be branched and reset, or any other option for what to do with such a dataset.