Agreed, but then, I still disagree with Eliezer when he says that when you generate 2^N possible bitstrings of size N, “you wouldn’t expect this procedure to generate any people or make any experiences real”. If I can generate all these strings in the first place, I could just as easily feed each one to my person-emulator, to see which of them are valid person-strings. Then I could emulate these people just as I emulate meat-based people whose brains I’d scanned.
Agreed, but then, I still disagree with Eliezer when he says that when you generate 2^N possible bitstrings of size N, “you wouldn’t expect this procedure to generate any people or make any experiences real”. If I can generate all these strings in the first place, I could just as easily feed each one to my person-emulator, to see which of them are valid person-strings. Then I could emulate these people just as I emulate meat-based people whose brains I’d scanned.