This has already happened, you’re reliving your 498,776th life and will be asked again in a few weeks (and you’ll choose 2 again, because you did the first time).
However, as the saying goes “past performance does not necessarily predict future results”. Whether your past is worth re-living and whether your unknown future is worth living are two very different questions, which could easily have different answers.
And finally, everyone who answers (1), can you identify the point when your past turned from nonnegative to negative? If not, you probably have a skewed memory and the sum of your experiences at those points in time is probably higher value than your aggregated memory at this point in time.
And finally, everyone who answers (1), can you identify the point when your past turned from nonnegative to negative?
I just don’t see a point in replaying the events with no possibility of changing them or using any understanding gained from the replay. It’s not a past-is-negative situation so much as a nothing-gained situation.
You are supposed to get annihilated automatically the second time, without a choice. You do not get to repeat it again and again.
That said, to me there is no difference in value between the choices because I cannot distinguish the results, no matter which one I choose. And I disagree with the implicit argument “better to live twice than only once, even if you don’t notice any difference.” There are many situations where I would agree an objective difference matters. Just not in this one or any similar one.
This has already happened, you’re reliving your 498,776th life and will be asked again in a few weeks (and you’ll choose 2 again, because you did the first time).
However, as the saying goes “past performance does not necessarily predict future results”. Whether your past is worth re-living and whether your unknown future is worth living are two very different questions, which could easily have different answers.
And finally, everyone who answers (1), can you identify the point when your past turned from nonnegative to negative? If not, you probably have a skewed memory and the sum of your experiences at those points in time is probably higher value than your aggregated memory at this point in time.
I just don’t see a point in replaying the events with no possibility of changing them or using any understanding gained from the replay. It’s not a past-is-negative situation so much as a nothing-gained situation.
You are supposed to get annihilated automatically the second time, without a choice. You do not get to repeat it again and again.
That said, to me there is no difference in value between the choices because I cannot distinguish the results, no matter which one I choose. And I disagree with the implicit argument “better to live twice than only once, even if you don’t notice any difference.” There are many situations where I would agree an objective difference matters. Just not in this one or any similar one.