Agreed, there does seem to be no practical difference for the you-in-bed. But that feature seems to be the whole point of this scenario, so I think pointing that out is just a form of debasing the thought-experiment (which also ends with the sentence “if you were forced to pick”, I might add).
Initially I thought I’d pick #2. My life was kind of fine enough, so I’d rather prefer to give a copy of me the privilege of experiencing my life than not.
However, assuming world#take2 is populated by “real people” (aka. complete simulations, not just some p-zombie Truman show shenanigans with fake “people outputs” who lack subjective experience) the question really becomes something else: Does the “video-clip” that was your life contain enough fun-for-you-and-others to outweigh the suffering of all the real/perfectly simulated people that would be re-living their existences alongside you? Kind of makes me tend strongly towards #1 just to get it over and done with, there’s just still too much shit happening in this world. Just to be safe in order to not commit atrocities for a bit of mediocre hedonistic fun it is #1 for me. Life’s fun but who needs it.
Agreed, there does seem to be no practical difference for the you-in-bed. But that feature seems to be the whole point of this scenario, so I think pointing that out is just a form of debasing the thought-experiment (which also ends with the sentence “if you were forced to pick”, I might add).
Initially I thought I’d pick #2. My life was kind of fine enough, so I’d rather prefer to give a copy of me the privilege of experiencing my life than not.
However, assuming world#take2 is populated by “real people” (aka. complete simulations, not just some p-zombie Truman show shenanigans with fake “people outputs” who lack subjective experience) the question really becomes something else: Does the “video-clip” that was your life contain enough fun-for-you-and-others to outweigh the suffering of all the real/perfectly simulated people that would be re-living their existences alongside you? Kind of makes me tend strongly towards #1 just to get it over and done with, there’s just still too much shit happening in this world. Just to be safe in order to not commit atrocities for a bit of mediocre hedonistic fun it is #1 for me. Life’s fun but who needs it.