In fact, almost all humans don’t care equally about all instances of themselves. Currently, the only dimension we have is time, but there’s no reason to think that copies, especially non-interactive copies (with no continuity of future experiences) would be MORE important than 50-year-hence instances.
I’d expect this to be the common reaction: individuals care a lot about their instance, and kind of abstractly care about their other instances, but mostly in far-mode, and are probably not willing to sacrifice very much to improve that never-observable instance’s experience.
Note that this is DIFFERENT from committing to a policy that affects some potential instances and not others, without knowing which one will obtain.
In fact, almost all humans don’t care equally about all instances of themselves. Currently, the only dimension we have is time, but there’s no reason to think that copies, especially non-interactive copies (with no continuity of future experiences) would be MORE important than 50-year-hence instances.
I’d expect this to be the common reaction: individuals care a lot about their instance, and kind of abstractly care about their other instances, but mostly in far-mode, and are probably not willing to sacrifice very much to improve that never-observable instance’s experience.
Note that this is DIFFERENT from committing to a policy that affects some potential instances and not others, without knowing which one will obtain.