The OP isn’t making any claim like this; the question isn’t whether any particular experience has value in-and-of-itself, but is only making a claim about the correct way to evaluate the total utility in a world with multiple experience.
By analogy, consider special relativity: If a train is moving at 0.75c relative to the ground, and a passenger on the train throws a ball forward at 0.5c, then that means the ball is moving at 0.91c relative to the ground. But there is no reference frame in which the ball is “really” moving at 0.16c.
Or, more pertinently, suppose we have two identical simulations playing out at the same time. Each one contributes zero marginal utility to a world in which the other one exists (and might be told this by Omega), but that doesn’t mean that the two of them together have zero utility.
I don’t really understand what you’re saying about the relativity point. Also, I’m not trying to say the “correct” way to value things is my way, I’m saying that my way is my way, and I don’t think doubling up the transistors is going to do anything that it is coherent to care about.
The OP isn’t making any claim like this; the question isn’t whether any particular experience has value in-and-of-itself, but is only making a claim about the correct way to evaluate the total utility in a world with multiple experience.
By analogy, consider special relativity: If a train is moving at 0.75c relative to the ground, and a passenger on the train throws a ball forward at 0.5c, then that means the ball is moving at 0.91c relative to the ground. But there is no reference frame in which the ball is “really” moving at 0.16c.
Or, more pertinently, suppose we have two identical simulations playing out at the same time. Each one contributes zero marginal utility to a world in which the other one exists (and might be told this by Omega), but that doesn’t mean that the two of them together have zero utility.
I don’t really understand what you’re saying about the relativity point. Also, I’m not trying to say the “correct” way to value things is my way, I’m saying that my way is my way, and I don’t think doubling up the transistors is going to do anything that it is coherent to care about.