This is a good reply. I feel the same way that you do about your #1 and #2, but I suspect that the reason is because of an emotional reaction to physical death. Your #2 is relatively attractive because it doesn’t involve physical death, while my version had physical death in both. This might be one reason that I and most people don’t find cryonics attractive: because it does not prevent physical death, even if it offers the possibility of something happening afterwards.
I find the intuitions behind my point stronger than that emotional reaction. In other words, it seems to me that I should either adjust my feelings about the bullet to correspond with the memory wipe situation, or I should adjust the feelings about the memory wipe to correspond with the bullet situation. The first adjustment is more attractive: it suggests that death is not as bad as I thought. Of course, that does not prove that this is the correct adjustment.
Regarding the duplication machine, I would probably take a deal like that, given a high enough reward given to the surviving copy.
This is a good reply. I feel the same way that you do about your #1 and #2, but I suspect that the reason is because of an emotional reaction to physical death. Your #2 is relatively attractive because it doesn’t involve physical death, while my version had physical death in both. This might be one reason that I and most people don’t find cryonics attractive: because it does not prevent physical death, even if it offers the possibility of something happening afterwards.
I find the intuitions behind my point stronger than that emotional reaction. In other words, it seems to me that I should either adjust my feelings about the bullet to correspond with the memory wipe situation, or I should adjust the feelings about the memory wipe to correspond with the bullet situation. The first adjustment is more attractive: it suggests that death is not as bad as I thought. Of course, that does not prove that this is the correct adjustment.
Regarding the duplication machine, I would probably take a deal like that, given a high enough reward given to the surviving copy.