“If the real Chantiel is so correlated with you that they will do what you will do, then you should believe you’re real so that the real Chantiel will believe they are real, too. This holds even if you aren’t real.”
By “real”, do you mean non-simulated? Are you saying that even if 99% of Chantiels in the universe are in simulations, then I should still believe I’m not in one? I don’t know how I could convince myself of being “real” if 99% of Chantiels aren’t.
Do you perhaps mean I should act as if I were non-simulated, rather than literally being non-simulated?
It doesn’t matter how many fake versions of you hold the wrong conclusion about their own ontological status, since those fake beliefs exist in fake versions of you. The moral harm caused by a single real Chantiel thinking they’re not real is infinitely greater than infinitely many non-real Chantiels thinking they are real.
Interesting. When you say “fake” versions of myself, do you mean simulations? If so, I’m having a hard time seeing how that could be true. Specifically, what’s wrong about me thinking I might not be “real”? I mean, if I though I was in a simulation, I think I’d do pretty much the same things I would do if I thought I wasn’t in a simulation. So I’m not sure what the moral harm is.
Do you have any links to previous discussions about this?
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By “real”, do you mean non-simulated? Are you saying that even if 99% of Chantiels in the universe are in simulations, then I should still believe I’m not in one? I don’t know how I could convince myself of being “real” if 99% of Chantiels aren’t.
Do you perhaps mean I should act as if I were non-simulated, rather than literally being non-simulated?
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Interesting. When you say “fake” versions of myself, do you mean simulations? If so, I’m having a hard time seeing how that could be true. Specifically, what’s wrong about me thinking I might not be “real”? I mean, if I though I was in a simulation, I think I’d do pretty much the same things I would do if I thought I wasn’t in a simulation. So I’m not sure what the moral harm is.
Do you have any links to previous discussions about this?