That would be an pretty big “original privilege” :-)
Generally, when I think about making copies, I assume that the status of being “original” would be washed away and I would find myself existing with some amount of certainty (say 50% to 100%) that I was the copy. They I try to think about how I’d feel about having been created by someone who has all my memories/skills/tendencies/defects but has a metaphysically arbitrary (though perhaps emotionally or legally endorsed) claim to being “more authentic” than me by virtue of some historical fact of “mere physical continuity”.
I would only expect a copy to cooperate with my visions for what my copy “should do” if I’m excited by the prospect of getting to do that—if I’m kinda hoping that after the copy process I wake up as the copy because the copy is going to have a really interesting life.
In practice, I would expect that what I’d really have to do is write up two “divergence plans” for each future version of me, that seem equally desirable, then copy, then re-negotiate with my copy over the details of the divergence plans (because I imagine the practicalities of two of us existing might reveal some false assumptions in the first draft of the plans), and finally we’d flip a coin to find out which plan each of us is assigned to.
I guess… If only one of us gets the “right of making more copies” I’d want the original contact to make “copyright” re-assignable after the copying event, so I could figure out whether “copyright” is more of a privilege or a burden, and what the appropriate compensation is for taking up the burden or losing the privilege.
ETA:: Perhaps our preferences would diverge during negotiation? That actually seems like something to hope for because then a simple cake cutting algorithm could probably be used to ensure the assignment to a divergence plan was actually a positive sum interaction :-)
That would be an pretty big “original privilege” :-)
Generally, when I think about making copies, I assume that the status of being “original” would be washed away and I would find myself existing with some amount of certainty (say 50% to 100%) that I was the copy. They I try to think about how I’d feel about having been created by someone who has all my memories/skills/tendencies/defects but has a metaphysically arbitrary (though perhaps emotionally or legally endorsed) claim to being “more authentic” than me by virtue of some historical fact of “mere physical continuity”.
I would only expect a copy to cooperate with my visions for what my copy “should do” if I’m excited by the prospect of getting to do that—if I’m kinda hoping that after the copy process I wake up as the copy because the copy is going to have a really interesting life.
In practice, I would expect that what I’d really have to do is write up two “divergence plans” for each future version of me, that seem equally desirable, then copy, then re-negotiate with my copy over the details of the divergence plans (because I imagine the practicalities of two of us existing might reveal some false assumptions in the first draft of the plans), and finally we’d flip a coin to find out which plan each of us is assigned to.
I guess… If only one of us gets the “right of making more copies” I’d want the original contact to make “copyright” re-assignable after the copying event, so I could figure out whether “copyright” is more of a privilege or a burden, and what the appropriate compensation is for taking up the burden or losing the privilege.
ETA:: Perhaps our preferences would diverge during negotiation? That actually seems like something to hope for because then a simple cake cutting algorithm could probably be used to ensure the assignment to a divergence plan was actually a positive sum interaction :-)