Will see. I just have very little hope for progress to be made on this particular dead horse. I offered some ideas about how it could turn out that on human level progress can’t in principle be made on this question (and some similar ones).
Can you call this particular issue a ‘dead horse’ when it hasn’t been a common subject of argument before? (I mean, most of the relevant conversations in human history hadn’t gone past the sophomoric question of whether a copy of you is really you.)
If you’re going to be pessimistic on the prospect of discussion, I think you’d at very least need a new idiom, like “Don’t start beating a stillborn horse”.
If you’re going to be pessimistic on the prospect of discussion, I think you’d at very least need a new idiom, like “Don’t start beating a stillborn horse”.
oh ok. But the point of this post and the followup is to try to make inroads into morally estimating this, so I guess wait until the sequel.
Roko, have you seen my post The Moral Status of Independent Identical Copies? There are also some links in the comments of that post to earlier discussions.
Will see. I just have very little hope for progress to be made on this particular dead horse. I offered some ideas about how it could turn out that on human level progress can’t in principle be made on this question (and some similar ones).
Can you call this particular issue a ‘dead horse’ when it hasn’t been a common subject of argument before? (I mean, most of the relevant conversations in human history hadn’t gone past the sophomoric question of whether a copy of you is really you.)
If you’re going to be pessimistic on the prospect of discussion, I think you’d at very least need a new idiom, like “Don’t start beating a stillborn horse”.
I like the analogy!