It’s true that Alice needs to be rich for it to work, but I wouldn’t say she needs to “hate money”. If she seriously believes in this continuity of personhood, she is sending the money because she wants more money in the end. She truly believes she’s getting something out of this exchange.
BTW, you also need to be already rich and generally have a nice life, otherwise Alice’s cost of switching may be higher than the money she has. Conversely, if in the eyes of Alice you already have a much better life than hers, her cost of switching will be lower, so such a swap may be feasible. Then, this could actually snowball, because after each swap your life becomes a bit more desirable to others like Alice.
But maybe you mean that people like Alice would be quite rare? Could be so.
Yeah, that’s also what I expect. Actually I’d say my main hope for this thought experiment is that people who claim to believe in such continuity of personhood, when faced with this scenario may question it to some extent.
It’s true that Alice needs to be rich for it to work, but I wouldn’t say she needs to “hate money”. If she seriously believes in this continuity of personhood, she is sending the money because she wants more money in the end. She truly believes she’s getting something out of this exchange.
BTW, you also need to be already rich and generally have a nice life, otherwise Alice’s cost of switching may be higher than the money she has. Conversely, if in the eyes of Alice you already have a much better life than hers, her cost of switching will be lower, so such a swap may be feasible. Then, this could actually snowball, because after each swap your life becomes a bit more desirable to others like Alice.
But maybe you mean that people like Alice would be quite rare? Could be so.
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Yeah, that’s also what I expect. Actually I’d say my main hope for this thought experiment is that people who claim to believe in such continuity of personhood, when faced with this scenario may question it to some extent.