“I am the creator of the Matrix. If you fall on your knees, praise me and kiss my feet, I’ll use my magic powers from outside the Matrix to run a Turing machine that simulates 3^^^^3 copies of you having their coherent extrapolated volition satisfied maximally for 3^^^^3 years.”
Relevant to my decision: I don’t assign all that much utility to having 3^^^^3 copies of me satisfied. In fact, the utility I assign to 3^^^^3 copies of me being satisfied is, as far as I can tell, less than double the utility I assign to two copies of me being similarly uber-satisfied.
I am actually finding it difficult to come up with a serious Pascal’s Offer scenario. As far as I know my utility function doesn’t even reach the sort of extremes necessary to make such an offer sound tempting.
If you can offer me something that gives me greater utility than my lottery tickets then I will naturally be willing to trade. This should not be surprising.
Relevant to my decision: I don’t assign all that much utility to having 3^^^^3 copies of me satisfied. In fact, the utility I assign to 3^^^^3 copies of me being satisfied is, as far as I can tell, less than double the utility I assign to two copies of me being similarly uber-satisfied.
I am actually finding it difficult to come up with a serious Pascal’s Offer scenario. As far as I know my utility function doesn’t even reach the sort of extremes necessary to make such an offer sound tempting.
I’ll have your lottery tickets, then!
If you can offer me something that gives me greater utility than my lottery tickets then I will naturally be willing to trade. This should not be surprising.