I completely respect the differences of opinion on this issue, but this thought made me laugh over lunch:
Omega appears and says he will arrange for your taxes to be done and for a delightful selection of funny kitten videos to be sent to you, but only if you allow 100 perfect simulations of yourself to be created and then destroyed. Do you accept?
I would want to know what the copies would be used for.
If you told me that you would give me $1000 if you could do whatever you wanted with me tomorrow and then administer an amnesiac drug so I didn’t remember what happened the next day, I don’t think I would agree, because I don’t want to endure torture even if I don’t remember it.
I completely respect the differences of opinion on this issue, but this thought made me laugh over lunch: Omega appears and says he will arrange for your taxes to be done and for a delightful selection of funny kitten videos to be sent to you, but only if you allow 100 perfect simulations of yourself to be created and then destroyed. Do you accept?
Sounds more sinister my way.
I would want to know what the copies would be used for.
If you told me that you would give me $1000 if you could do whatever you wanted with me tomorrow and then administer an amnesiac drug so I didn’t remember what happened the next day, I don’t think I would agree, because I don’t want to endure torture even if I don’t remember it.