“Death events, which are very large negative utilities. It increases the average number of people who experience short lives.”
also seems very dubious to me. Too much like a justification aimed at pushing “it all adds up to normality” past its breaking point, back to a nice normal sort of world where death is bad, and so is signing up for cryonics, not marrying, not valuing family FAR above outsiders, not eating exclusively your tribes food and engaging in exclusively your tribe’s sexual practices, etc.
OTOH, I do see a very small chance (vagueness in my thought, not low measure or low calibrated probability) that death actually is VERY bad, not just neutral, coming from quantum immortality, as most of the ways of surviving many causes of death may be much worse than neutral.
“Death events, which are very large negative utilities. It increases the average number of people who experience short lives.” also seems very dubious to me. Too much like a justification aimed at pushing “it all adds up to normality” past its breaking point, back to a nice normal sort of world where death is bad, and so is signing up for cryonics, not marrying, not valuing family FAR above outsiders, not eating exclusively your tribes food and engaging in exclusively your tribe’s sexual practices, etc. OTOH, I do see a very small chance (vagueness in my thought, not low measure or low calibrated probability) that death actually is VERY bad, not just neutral, coming from quantum immortality, as most of the ways of surviving many causes of death may be much worse than neutral.