I don’t think MWI works that way, but even if it did, I don’t think your logic necessarily follows.
Lets say that worlds duplicate every 2 seconds. Every minute that turns each single world into a billion. If I wait one minute to eat a cookie, that means that anywhere from 0 to a billion copies of ‘me’ get the utility of a cookie when they eat it. However, if I eat a cookie now, I’m securing the utility for every one of those billion possible Everett Branches. The utility I get now is multiplied into every future branch.
If utility were money, you’d be up against 100,000,000,000% inflation each minute. However, your interest rate is 100,000,000,000% per minute too. In the end, it just evens out, so that MWI shouldn’t change your time preference either way.
if I eat a cookie now, I’m securing the utility for every one of those billion possible Everett Branches. The utility I get now is multiplied into every future branch.
The pleasure of eating chocolate is temporary, more in the act than than in the memory. If you eat it in a minute the billion future yous get the joy of the act and then later the joy of the memory, while if you eat it now current you gets the joy of the act and the billion future yous only get the joy of the memory.
I don’t think MWI works that way, but even if it did, I don’t think your logic necessarily follows.
Lets say that worlds duplicate every 2 seconds. Every minute that turns each single world into a billion. If I wait one minute to eat a cookie, that means that anywhere from 0 to a billion copies of ‘me’ get the utility of a cookie when they eat it. However, if I eat a cookie now, I’m securing the utility for every one of those billion possible Everett Branches. The utility I get now is multiplied into every future branch.
If utility were money, you’d be up against 100,000,000,000% inflation each minute. However, your interest rate is 100,000,000,000% per minute too. In the end, it just evens out, so that MWI shouldn’t change your time preference either way.
The pleasure of eating chocolate is temporary, more in the act than than in the memory. If you eat it in a minute the billion future yous get the joy of the act and then later the joy of the memory, while if you eat it now current you gets the joy of the act and the billion future yous only get the joy of the memory.