Infinite torture means to tweak someone beyond recognition.
Infinite torture is too big to think about. Try this:
“Imagine yourself naked and shut up in an iron coffin, that is put into the furnace and heated to a fiery red heat. You know what it is like to burn a finger—how much more awful will it be to find yourself in that coffin, burning all over, and yet God in His power will not let you be consumed. You suffocate but cannot expire. You cannot endure it—but you will, for a thousand years, and a thousand thousand, and that is less than a moment compared with the eternity of suffering that lies before you.”
That is a reconstruction of a recollection of something I once read of a Christian preacher of former times saying. For more along these lines, just try this Google search. “Terror of hell” was a recognised psychological malady back in the day.
Will you blithely say, as you fall into the AI’s clutches, “it won’t be me experiencing it”?
The twins’ happiness is apparent to all around them—they laughed and played the entire day the “Nightline” crew was with them. “They … have this connection between their, what’s called the thalamus, between the thalami, one in each to the other,” said Dr. Doug Cochrane, the twins’ pediatric neurologist. “So there’s actually a bridge of neural tissues in these twins, which makes them quite unique.” It also makes them impossible to separate. Mom Felicia Hogan and others believe the connection has given the twins unique powers. “They share a lot of things normal conjoined twins don’t,” she said. “They have special abilities to see each other, see what each other’s seeing through each other’s eyes.”
Why choose the future over the present? I just cannot associate enough with that being that is tortured to feel anything now. I have a very good idea of what I want at every moment. And either I win like this or I don’t care at all what’s going to happen otherwise. That is, I’m not going to accept any tradeoff, any compromise big enough to extort it from me by means of infinite torture.
Anyway, as I wrote before, given the Mathematical Universe/Many-Worlds/Simulation Argument everything good and bad is happening to you, i.e. is timeless.
I had several blood vessel cauterizations in my nose over my lifetime. They just use a kind of soldering iron to burn your mucous membrane. All without any anesthetization. I always cried when I was younger. Now I’m so used to it that I don’t care much anymore. So yeah, an AI might do that to my eyes but why care, it’ll have to restore them again anyway. What a waste of resources :-)
Oh and that preacher has no imagination. I can imagine scenarios MUCH worse than that.
I’d choose (b) without the amnesia because I do not cooperate with such scum and it be an interesting experience and test to figure out what to choose in similar cases.
I’d choose (b) without the amnesia because I do not cooperate with such scum and it be an interesting experience and test to figure out what to choose in similar cases.
Ming would not ask this, but—Are you sure you want to be tortured? Finding third options in bad scenarios is cool, but not if they’re strictly worse than the options already presented. This is like choosing suicide in Newcomb’s problem.
Infinite torture is too big to think about. Try this:
“Imagine yourself naked and shut up in an iron coffin, that is put into the furnace and heated to a fiery red heat. You know what it is like to burn a finger—how much more awful will it be to find yourself in that coffin, burning all over, and yet God in His power will not let you be consumed. You suffocate but cannot expire. You cannot endure it—but you will, for a thousand years, and a thousand thousand, and that is less than a moment compared with the eternity of suffering that lies before you.”
That is a reconstruction of a recollection of something I once read of a Christian preacher of former times saying. For more along these lines, just try this Google search. “Terror of hell” was a recognised psychological malady back in the day.
Will you blithely say, as you fall into the AI’s clutches, “it won’t be me experiencing it”?
I don’t know.
Who’s who? Conjoined Twins Share a Brain
Why choose the future over the present? I just cannot associate enough with that being that is tortured to feel anything now. I have a very good idea of what I want at every moment. And either I win like this or I don’t care at all what’s going to happen otherwise. That is, I’m not going to accept any tradeoff, any compromise big enough to extort it from me by means of infinite torture.
Anyway, as I wrote before, given the Mathematical Universe/Many-Worlds/Simulation Argument everything good and bad is happening to you, i.e. is timeless.
I had several blood vessel cauterizations in my nose over my lifetime. They just use a kind of soldering iron to burn your mucous membrane. All without any anesthetization. I always cried when I was younger. Now I’m so used to it that I don’t care much anymore. So yeah, an AI might do that to my eyes but why care, it’ll have to restore them again anyway. What a waste of resources :-)
Oh and that preacher has no imagination. I can imagine scenarios MUCH worse than that.
What would your answer be to this conundrum?
I’d choose (b) without the amnesia because I do not cooperate with such scum and it be an interesting experience and test to figure out what to choose in similar cases.
Ming would not ask this, but—Are you sure you want to be tortured? Finding third options in bad scenarios is cool, but not if they’re strictly worse than the options already presented. This is like choosing suicide in Newcomb’s problem.