At some point our descendants will either discover for certain they are in a sim, or they will approach local closure and perhaps discover an intergalactic community. At that point we may have to compete with other singularity-civilizations, and we may have the opportunity to historically intervene on pre-singularity planets we encounter. We’d probably want to simulate any interventions before preceeding, don’t you think?
If we had enough information to create an entire constructed reality of them in simulation, we’d have much more than we needed to just go ahead and intervene.
If you could create a new big bang, an entire new singularity and new universe, would you? You seem to be arguing that you would not because it would include humans who suffer. I think this ends up being equivalent to arguing the universe should not exist.
Some people would argue that it shouldn’t (this is an extreme of negative utilitarianism.) However, since we’re in no position to decide whether the universe gets to exist or not, the dispute is fairly irrelevant. If we’re in a position to decide between creating a universe like ours, creating one that’s much better, with more happiness and productivity and less suffering, and not creating one at all, though, I would have an extremely poor regard for the morality of someone who chose the first.
My existence is fully contingent on the existence of my ancestors in all of their suffering glory. So from my perspective, yes their suffering was absolutely worthwhile, even if it wasn’t from their perspective.
If my descendants think that all my suffering was worthwhile so that they could be born instead of someone else, then you know what? Fuck them. I certainly have a higher regard for my own ancestors. If they could have been happier, and given rise to a world as good as better than this one, then who am I to argue that they should have been unhappy so I could be born instead? If, as you point out
A historical recreation can develop into a new worldline with it’s own set of branching paradises that increase overall variation in a blossoming metaverse.
then why not skip the historical recreation and go straight to simulating the paradises?
If we had enough information to create an entire constructed reality of them in simulation, we’d have much more than we needed to just go ahead and intervene.
Some people would argue that it shouldn’t (this is an extreme of negative utilitarianism.) However, since we’re in no position to decide whether the universe gets to exist or not, the dispute is fairly irrelevant. If we’re in a position to decide between creating a universe like ours, creating one that’s much better, with more happiness and productivity and less suffering, and not creating one at all, though, I would have an extremely poor regard for the morality of someone who chose the first.
If my descendants think that all my suffering was worthwhile so that they could be born instead of someone else, then you know what? Fuck them. I certainly have a higher regard for my own ancestors. If they could have been happier, and given rise to a world as good as better than this one, then who am I to argue that they should have been unhappy so I could be born instead? If, as you point out
then why not skip the historical recreation and go straight to simulating the paradises?