It depends on external factors, since it would primarily be a way of changing anthropic probabilities (I follow Bostrom’s intuitions here). If I today committed to copy myself an extra time whenever something particularly good happened to me (or whenever the world at large took a positive turn), I’d expect to experience a better world from now on.
If I couldn’t use copying in that way, I don’t think it would be of any value to me.
It depends on external factors, since it would primarily be a way of changing anthropic probabilities (I follow Bostrom’s intuitions here). If I today committed to copy myself an extra time whenever something particularly good happened to me (or whenever the world at large took a positive turn), I’d expect to experience a better world from now on.
If I couldn’t use copying in that way, I don’t think it would be of any value to me.