“The argument about people who survived and remember past sufferings is not working here as it is only one of infinitely many chains of experiences (in this model) which for any person has very small subjective probability.”
Then I think you would only be creating an enormous number of new minds. Among all those minds, indeed, very few would have gone through a very bad chain of experience. But that doesn’t mean that SOME would. In fact, you haven’t reduced that number (the number of minds who have gone through a very bad chain of experience). You only reduced their percentage among all existing minds, by creating a huge number of new minds without a very bad chain of experience. But that doesn’t in any way negate the existence of the minds who have gone through a very bad chain of experience.
I mean, you can’t outdo chains of past experience, that’s just impossible. You can’t outdo the past. You can go back in time and create new timelines, but that is just creating new minds. Nothing will ever outdo the fact that person x experienced chain of experience y.
It depends on the nature of our assumption about the role of continuity in human identity. If we assume that continuity is based only on remembering the past moment, then we can start new chains from any moment we chose.
Alternative view is that continuity of identity is based on causal connection or qualia connection. This view comes with ontological costs, close to the idea of the existence of immaterial soul. Such soul could be “saved” from the past using some technological tricks, and we again have some instruments to cure past sufferings.
If I instantly cloned you right now, your clone would experience the continuity of your identity, but so would you. You can double the continuity (create new minds, which become independent from each other after doubling), but not translocate it.
If I clone myself and then kill myself, I would have created a new person with a copy of my identity, but the original copy, the original consciousness, still ceases to exist. Likewise, if you create 1000 paradises for each second of agony, you will create 1000 new minds which will feel themselves “saved”, but you won’t save the original copy. The original copy is still in hell.
Our best option is to do everything possible not to bring uncontrollable new technologies into existence until they are provably safe, and meanwhile we can eliminate all future suffering by eliminating all conscious beings’ ability to suffer, á la David Pearce (abolitionist project).
“The argument about people who survived and remember past sufferings is not working here as it is only one of infinitely many chains of experiences (in this model) which for any person has very small subjective probability.”
Then I think you would only be creating an enormous number of new minds. Among all those minds, indeed, very few would have gone through a very bad chain of experience. But that doesn’t mean that SOME would. In fact, you haven’t reduced that number (the number of minds who have gone through a very bad chain of experience). You only reduced their percentage among all existing minds, by creating a huge number of new minds without a very bad chain of experience. But that doesn’t in any way negate the existence of the minds who have gone through a very bad chain of experience.
I mean, you can’t outdo chains of past experience, that’s just impossible. You can’t outdo the past. You can go back in time and create new timelines, but that is just creating new minds. Nothing will ever outdo the fact that person x experienced chain of experience y.
It depends on the nature of our assumption about the role of continuity in human identity. If we assume that continuity is based only on remembering the past moment, then we can start new chains from any moment we chose.
Alternative view is that continuity of identity is based on causal connection or qualia connection. This view comes with ontological costs, close to the idea of the existence of immaterial soul. Such soul could be “saved” from the past using some technological tricks, and we again have some instruments to cure past sufferings.
If I instantly cloned you right now, your clone would experience the continuity of your identity, but so would you. You can double the continuity (create new minds, which become independent from each other after doubling), but not translocate it.
If I clone myself and then kill myself, I would have created a new person with a copy of my identity, but the original copy, the original consciousness, still ceases to exist. Likewise, if you create 1000 paradises for each second of agony, you will create 1000 new minds which will feel themselves “saved”, but you won’t save the original copy. The original copy is still in hell.
Our best option is to do everything possible not to bring uncontrollable new technologies into existence until they are provably safe, and meanwhile we can eliminate all future suffering by eliminating all conscious beings’ ability to suffer, á la David Pearce (abolitionist project).