If I spend one century on Earth and one millenium in heaven, why am I on Earth?
(SIA can answer this, but only by giving an account of why there’s much more total experience in the world if sims are resurrected than not. The most plausible means here are that the latter is correlated with cooperative norms prevailing across the cosmos generally, such that a much larger surplus is available for conscious experience in general. But then taking SIA seriously means embracing infinite populations and I get very confused about how to reason then.)
One slightly trollish answer is “someone figures out how to merge minds and this turns out to be a highly desirable thing to do, so most independent observer-moments are before the point where mind-merging is common”.
If I spend one century on Earth and one millenium in heaven, why am I on Earth?
(SIA can answer this, but only by giving an account of why there’s much more total experience in the world if sims are resurrected than not. The most plausible means here are that the latter is correlated with cooperative norms prevailing across the cosmos generally, such that a much larger surplus is available for conscious experience in general. But then taking SIA seriously means embracing infinite populations and I get very confused about how to reason then.)
One slightly trollish answer is “someone figures out how to merge minds and this turns out to be a highly desirable thing to do, so most independent observer-moments are before the point where mind-merging is common”.