Should I care about Everett branches in which I do not exist?
Right now you should certainly care about branches descended from this one but in which you no longer exist. Allow the assumption “you care at least epsilon about anything except your own physical form”. Whether, at a time where there is an everett branch in which you already no longer exist, you should still care about that branch is more arbitrary. However, what is not arbitrary is that the you now should prefer to self modify to be the kind of person who does care about Everett branches descended from this one in which you no longer exist, since that gives better expected results (from your current perspective).
you now should prefer to self modify to be the kind of person who does care about Everett branches descended from this one in which you no longer exist, since that gives better expected results (from your current perspective).
Makes sense, thanks for articulating it. This is the reason I don’t consider quantum suicide (via cryonics) a reasonable position until a normal end of life situation.
And without using cryonics, quantum suicide has the potential to be a very bad experience. Cryonics is a rather all-or-nothing approach, which is good in that it reduces the very large middle ground where I survive but with 40% brain function. (As noted in Valdimir_Nesov’s link)
This is the reason I don’t consider quantum suicide (via cryonics) a reasonable position until a normal end of life situation.
I’m not sure where the cryonics/quantum suicide link is coming from. Do you just mean ‘cryonics’ in the sense “use something to make the patient clearly unconscious and then either wake them up or destroy them”? (As opposed to any long-term-storage connotations.)
Right now you should certainly care about branches descended from this one but in which you no longer exist. Allow the assumption “you care at least epsilon about anything except your own physical form”. Whether, at a time where there is an everett branch in which you already no longer exist, you should still care about that branch is more arbitrary. However, what is not arbitrary is that the you now should prefer to self modify to be the kind of person who does care about Everett branches descended from this one in which you no longer exist, since that gives better expected results (from your current perspective).
Makes sense, thanks for articulating it. This is the reason I don’t consider quantum suicide (via cryonics) a reasonable position until a normal end of life situation.
And without using cryonics, quantum suicide has the potential to be a very bad experience. Cryonics is a rather all-or-nothing approach, which is good in that it reduces the very large middle ground where I survive but with 40% brain function. (As noted in Valdimir_Nesov’s link)
I’m not sure where the cryonics/quantum suicide link is coming from. Do you just mean ‘cryonics’ in the sense “use something to make the patient clearly unconscious and then either wake them up or destroy them”? (As opposed to any long-term-storage connotations.)
I’m a fan of that link for some reason.
Yes. Cryonics being preferred over other methods because it’s a viable method for survival in the linear time case as well.