I recall in one of the Discworld novels the smallest unit of time is defined as the period in which the universe is destroyed and then recreated. If that were continually happening (perhaps even in a massively parallel manner)? What difference does that make? Building on some of Eliezer’s earlier writing on zombies and quantum clones, I say none at all. Just as the simulated person in a human’s dream is irrelevant once forgotten. It’s possible that I myself am a simulation and in that case I don’t want my torture to be simulated (at least in this instance, I have no problem constructing another simulation/clone of me that gets tortured), but I can’t retroactively go back and prevent my simulator from creating me in order to torture me.
I okayed mothers committing full-blown infanticide here.
ShardPhoenix, you may be interested in this book [shameless plug]
I recall in one of the Discworld novels the smallest unit of time is defined as the period in which the universe is destroyed and then recreated. If that were continually happening (perhaps even in a massively parallel manner)? What difference does that make? Building on some of Eliezer’s earlier writing on zombies and quantum clones, I say none at all. Just as the simulated person in a human’s dream is irrelevant once forgotten. It’s possible that I myself am a simulation and in that case I don’t want my torture to be simulated (at least in this instance, I have no problem constructing another simulation/clone of me that gets tortured), but I can’t retroactively go back and prevent my simulator from creating me in order to torture me.
I okayed mothers committing full-blown infanticide here.
ShardPhoenix, you may be interested in this book [shameless plug]