This isn’t working for me as pumping the intuition you seem to want it to. I think life is worth living and I’d just cut to the chase and pick 1 because option 2 doesn’t make sense as a way to get more life. Pattern theory of identity, life is a process, not a weighted lump of time-space-matter-stuff where you can just say “let’s double the helping” like this. If you run the exact same process twice, that doesn’t get you any new patterns and new life compared to just running it once.
Or if the idea is that I’d be aware of having gotten a second run, the part about the exact same decisions and experiences seems to make this amount to spending a few decades watching a boring home video with nothing you-on-second-trip can do about it and constantly aware that you’ll be annihilated at the end. I guess the “maybe the horse will learn to sing” thinking would make sense here, but that’s just fighting the hypothetical that the thought experiment will unfold exactly as described.
This isn’t working for me as pumping the intuition you seem to want it to. I think life is worth living and I’d just cut to the chase and pick 1 because option 2 doesn’t make sense as a way to get more life. Pattern theory of identity, life is a process, not a weighted lump of time-space-matter-stuff where you can just say “let’s double the helping” like this. If you run the exact same process twice, that doesn’t get you any new patterns and new life compared to just running it once.
Or if the idea is that I’d be aware of having gotten a second run, the part about the exact same decisions and experiences seems to make this amount to spending a few decades watching a boring home video with nothing you-on-second-trip can do about it and constantly aware that you’ll be annihilated at the end. I guess the “maybe the horse will learn to sing” thinking would make sense here, but that’s just fighting the hypothetical that the thought experiment will unfold exactly as described.