No. I intend to revive one. Possibly all four, if necessary. Consider it thawing technology so advanced it can revive even the pyronics crowd.
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The pinnacle of cryonics technology will be a time machine that can at the very least, take a snapshot of someone before they died and reconstitute them in the future. I have three living grandparents and I intend to have four living grandparents when the last star in the Milky Way burns out. (50%)
How is WrongBot going to learn to think and write more skillfully by moving to a place that’s collectively worse at doing so?
That doesn’t help maximize paperclips, though. If you make all decisions based on two criteria—paperclip count and emotions—then the only situation in which those decisions differ from what you would have decided based solely on paperclip count is one in which you choose an outcome with fewer paperclips but a better emotional result.
If you were to refuse my offer, you would not only be losing a paperclip now, but also increasing the likelihood that in the future, you will decide to sacrifice paperclips for emotion’s sake. Perhaps you will one day build a paperclip-creator that creates one paperclip per second, and I will threaten to destroy a paperclip unless you shut it down. If you care too much about the threatened paperclip you might comply, and then where would you be? Sitting in an empty room where paperclips should have been.
Would you trade those base emotions for a paperclip?
Well, I would have done some research and gotten a warm fuzzy feeling out of expanding my knowledge, but if you’re going to displace that motivation with only a chance at a measly $10 I guess it’s not worth my time.
Then we can suggest that they’re temporarily dead, but they’re still dead, so it’s a “grave”. Religions have been saying that death is temporary for thousands of years anyways, it wouldn’t be anything new.
Because you need to know if they’ve made a commitment, and using old information can get you burned if as stated, you pre-commit simultaneously.
Then the statement of absolute trust is accounted for by the significant rate of mistakes people make.
Alternatively, you can make that statement as part of a strategy to maximize your expected return on a marriage—if the increase in marriage quality from placing absolute trust in your spouse is greater than the expected cost of being disadvantaged in the divorce negotiaions (if your spouse turns out to be untrustworthy), then you might rationally do it anyways.
Guilt is an added cost to making decisions that benefit you at the expense of others. (Ideally, anyways.) It encourages people to cooperate to everyone’s benefit. Suppose we have a PD matrix where the payoffs are: (defect, cooperate) = (3, 0) (defect, defect) = (1, 1) (cooperate, cooperate) = (2, 2) (cooperate, defect) = (0, 3) Normally we say that ‘defect’ is the dominant strategy since regardless of the other person’s decision, your ‘defect’ option payoff is 1 higher than ‘cooperate’.
Now suppose you (both) feel guilty about betrayal to the tune of 2 units: (defect, cooperate) = (1, 0) (cooperate, cooperate) = (2, 2) (defect, defect) = (-1, −1) (cooperate, defect) = (0, 1)
The situation is reversed - ‘cooperate’ is the dominant strategy. Total payoff in this situation is 4. Total payoff in the guiltless case is 2 since both will defect. In the OP $10-button example the total payoff is $-90, so people as a group lose out if anyone pushes the button. Guilt discourages you from pushing the button and society is better for it.
We can tweak the experiment a bit to clarify this. Suppose the coin is flipped before she goes to sleep, but the result is hidden. If she’s interviewed immediately, she has no reason to answer other than 1⁄2 - at this point it’s just “flip a fair coin and estimate P(heads)”. What information does she get the next time she’s asked that would cause her to update her estimate? She’s woken up, yes, but she already knew that would happen before going under and still answered 1⁄2. With no new information she should still guess 1⁄2 when woken up.
At that speed, you have less than 0.3 mm per clock cycle for your signals to propagate. Seems like you’d either need to make ridiculously tiny gadgets, or devote a lot of resources to managing the delays. Seems reasonable enough.