Why would you ever choose the uncool option?! I don’t intend that to be a rude response, I just can’t wrap my head around it. Do you just feel that way? How do you know? Have you thought about that you might be confused, or might have some kind of status-quo bias?
(Not that I have a problem with your choice. I think a utopia should totally allow people to do things I find stupid, as long as it doesn’t cause any other harm.)
Have you thought about that you might be confused, or might have some kind of status-quo bias?
Even though it’s too strong to say that I would never choose the cooler existence, for what I understand of my present preferences, I’m not tempted at all about living in a simulation. By saying that I mean:
I’m aware there’s no difference between reality and a perfect simulation;
I don’t need particular complexity in my life, and most importantly, I don’t need more complexity than I have now;
I would choose simulation if it was a matter of survival, e.g. a gamma burst approaching Earth
if I were granted in a eutopia the state of happiness that I have in the present life, forever, that would be very ok for me.
(Not that I have a problem with your choice. I think a utopia should totally allow people to do things I find stupid, as long as it doesn’t cause any other harm.)
That is very cool from you: I promise that if I were to code a friendly AI, I will let it have people upload in a cooler existence, as long as they don’t cause any harm to the ‘meatballs’ ;)
Why would you ever choose the uncool option?! I don’t intend that to be a rude response, I just can’t wrap my head around it. Do you just feel that way? How do you know? Have you thought about that you might be confused, or might have some kind of status-quo bias?
(Not that I have a problem with your choice. I think a utopia should totally allow people to do things I find stupid, as long as it doesn’t cause any other harm.)
Even though it’s too strong to say that I would never choose the cooler existence, for what I understand of my present preferences, I’m not tempted at all about living in a simulation. By saying that I mean:
I’m aware there’s no difference between reality and a perfect simulation;
I don’t need particular complexity in my life, and most importantly, I don’t need more complexity than I have now;
I would choose simulation if it was a matter of survival, e.g. a gamma burst approaching Earth
if I were granted in a eutopia the state of happiness that I have in the present life, forever, that would be very ok for me.
That is very cool from you: I promise that if I were to code a friendly AI, I will let it have people upload in a cooler existence, as long as they don’t cause any harm to the ‘meatballs’ ;)