Sahil’s argument about room temperature reference is interesting but I don’t think it quite works.
When your body is duplicated sim-you keeps thinking and referring to sim-temperature rather than temperature, so they’ll continue adjusting their sim-blankets and sim-AC to regulate their sim body temperature.
The point is, if this is a perfect atom-level simulation then the sim-cells in sim-you would act in the exact same way as real cells act in your real body and sim-temp would therefore play the same causal/functional role as real-temp for real you. In other words, sim-you would die (within the simulation) if their sim-temp fell outside a certain range and they would feel sim-cold or sim-warm causing them to adjust their sim-blankets and sim-AC. In this sense, sim-you would have a survival drive to maintain and adjust their sim-temperature! The fact that sim-temp doesn’t refer to real temp outside the simulation to maintain the computer chip temperature is irrelevant to how warm/cold sim-you is feeling and their subsequent survival drives.
I think the crux is that the simulation needs to be at the correct functional grain (whether fine-grained or coarse-grained) for sim-temperature to play the same functional role as real temperature and preserve the survival drives.
Sahil’s argument about room temperature reference is interesting but I don’t think it quite works.
When your body is duplicated sim-you keeps thinking and referring to sim-temperature rather than temperature, so they’ll continue adjusting their sim-blankets and sim-AC to regulate their sim body temperature.
The point is, if this is a perfect atom-level simulation then the sim-cells in sim-you would act in the exact same way as real cells act in your real body and sim-temp would therefore play the same causal/functional role as real-temp for real you. In other words, sim-you would die (within the simulation) if their sim-temp fell outside a certain range and they would feel sim-cold or sim-warm causing them to adjust their sim-blankets and sim-AC. In this sense, sim-you would have a survival drive to maintain and adjust their sim-temperature! The fact that sim-temp doesn’t refer to real temp outside the simulation to maintain the computer chip temperature is irrelevant to how warm/cold sim-you is feeling and their subsequent survival drives.
I think the crux is that the simulation needs to be at the correct functional grain (whether fine-grained or coarse-grained) for sim-temperature to play the same functional role as real temperature and preserve the survival drives.
I think you are right. The original argument sounds dead to me.