I have so many project ideas that it would be nice to be able to fork() a new me every now and then. But that’s not because I value my own multiple-existence, but because I would be able to accomplish more high-utility activities.
Honestly, I don’t think quantity of lives is all that important. Extinction is maximally bad, but beyond that I don’t see much difference between a universe with a few humans and a universe with many humans. (as long as the few humans are doing as much cool stuff as the many). In that sense my value of new life is logarithmic.
In this case, I don’t think value of lives is even important. If the sim doesn’t talk to it’s environment, it’s just a math problem, and should only be done once, to get the answer. If you don’t even ask for the answer, the lazy evaluator shouldn’t even run the thing. (because obviously, you’d write this thing in haskell). Valuing computation for it’s own sake is, to put it bluntly, fucking stupid.
I pick b, because it would waste more of Omega’s resources. I would also ask if there was a chance that I could run 3^^^3 of them. If it didn’t involve some annoying troll like Omega, I’d run 0 of them.
I have so many project ideas that it would be nice to be able to fork() a new me every now and then. But that’s not because I value my own multiple-existence, but because I would be able to accomplish more high-utility activities.
Honestly, I don’t think quantity of lives is all that important. Extinction is maximally bad, but beyond that I don’t see much difference between a universe with a few humans and a universe with many humans. (as long as the few humans are doing as much cool stuff as the many). In that sense my value of new life is logarithmic.
In this case, I don’t think value of lives is even important. If the sim doesn’t talk to it’s environment, it’s just a math problem, and should only be done once, to get the answer. If you don’t even ask for the answer, the lazy evaluator shouldn’t even run the thing. (because obviously, you’d write this thing in haskell). Valuing computation for it’s own sake is, to put it bluntly, fucking stupid.
I pick b, because it would waste more of Omega’s resources. I would also ask if there was a chance that I could run 3^^^3 of them. If it didn’t involve some annoying troll like Omega, I’d run 0 of them.