I’m normally in favor of high decoupling, but this thought experiment seems to take it well beyond the point of absurdity. If I somehow found myself in control of the fate of 10^100 shrimp, the first thing I’d want to do is figure out where I am and what’s going on, since I’m clearly no longer in the universe I’m familiar with.
Yeah, I mean, that also isn’t a crazy response. I think being like “what would it even mean to have 10^30 times more shrimp than atoms? Really seems like my whole ontology about the world must be really confused” also seems fine. My objection is mostly to “it’s obvious you kill the shrimp to save the human”.
what would it even mean to have 10^30 times more shrimp than atoms?
Oh, easy, it just implies you’re engaging in acausal trade with a godlike entity residing in some universe dramatically bigger than this one. This interpretation introduces no additional questions or complications whatsoever.
I’m normally in favor of high decoupling, but this thought experiment seems to take it well beyond the point of absurdity. If I somehow found myself in control of the fate of 10^100 shrimp, the first thing I’d want to do is figure out where I am and what’s going on, since I’m clearly no longer in the universe I’m familiar with.
Yeah, I mean, that also isn’t a crazy response. I think being like “what would it even mean to have 10^30 times more shrimp than atoms? Really seems like my whole ontology about the world must be really confused” also seems fine. My objection is mostly to “it’s obvious you kill the shrimp to save the human”.
Oh, easy, it just implies you’re engaging in acausal trade with a godlike entity residing in some universe dramatically bigger than this one. This interpretation introduces no additional questions or complications whatsoever.