I assume the thought experiment ignores instrumental considerations like altruistic impact.
For re-living my actual life, I wouldn’t care that much either way, because most of my experiences haven’t been extremely good or extremely bad. However, if there was randomness, such that I had some probability of, e.g., being tortured by a serial killer, then I would certainly choose not to repeat life.
However, if there was randomness, such that I had some probability of, e.g., being tortured by a serial killer, then I would certainly choose not to repeat life.
Your future life as of this moment certainly has a large amount of randomness.
Yeah, but it would be very bad relative to my altruistic goals if I died any time soon. The thought experiment in the OP ignores altruistic considerations.
Yes, because I don’t see any significant selfish upside to life, only possible downside in cases of torture/etc. Life is often fun, but I don’t strongly care about experiencing it.
Currently I don’t care much about strongly positive events, so at this point I’d say no. In the throes of such a positive event I might change my mind. :)
I assume the thought experiment ignores instrumental considerations like altruistic impact.
For re-living my actual life, I wouldn’t care that much either way, because most of my experiences haven’t been extremely good or extremely bad. However, if there was randomness, such that I had some probability of, e.g., being tortured by a serial killer, then I would certainly choose not to repeat life.
Your future life as of this moment certainly has a large amount of randomness.
Yeah, but it would be very bad relative to my altruistic goals if I died any time soon. The thought experiment in the OP ignores altruistic considerations.
Even if the probability was trivial?
Yes, because I don’t see any significant selfish upside to life, only possible downside in cases of torture/etc. Life is often fun, but I don’t strongly care about experiencing it.
If there was randomness such that you had some probability of a strongly positive event, would this incline you towards life?
Currently I don’t care much about strongly positive events, so at this point I’d say no. In the throes of such a positive event I might change my mind. :)