I think it might be possible to patch around this by weighting people by their projected future cycle count. Otherwise, I fear that you may end up with a Repugnant Conclusion even without an adversary—a very large number of happy emulated people running very slowly would outweigh a smaller number of equally happy people running at human-brain-speed. Of course, this still gives an advantage to the views of those who can afford more computing power, but it’s a smaller advantage. And perhaps our CEV would be to at least somewhat equalize the available computing power per person.
Otherwise, I fear that you may end up with a Repugnant Conclusion even without an adversary—a very large number of happy emulated people running very slowly would outweigh a smaller number of equally happy people running at human-brain-speed.
Of course, the slowest possible clock speed is … none, or one tick per lifetime of the universe or something, so we’d all end up as frozen snapshots.
I think it might be possible to patch around this by weighting people by their projected future cycle count. Otherwise, I fear that you may end up with a Repugnant Conclusion even without an adversary—a very large number of happy emulated people running very slowly would outweigh a smaller number of equally happy people running at human-brain-speed. Of course, this still gives an advantage to the views of those who can afford more computing power, but it’s a smaller advantage. And perhaps our CEV would be to at least somewhat equalize the available computing power per person.
Of course, the slowest possible clock speed is … none, or one tick per lifetime of the universe or something, so we’d all end up as frozen snapshots.