“However, if you examine things closely the difference between 2014!Eliezer and 2094!Eliezer is actually bigger than the difference between 2014!Eliezer and let’s say 2014!Yvain due to having all the new standard enhancements.”
I question how well your delta-person-function corresponds to an intuitive notion of “similar people”.
“Same person” is a slightly-blurry blob of feature space concentrated heavily around a-person-as-they-are-at-the-moment. It generally includes the person they were a second ago, and (to a lesser extent) the person they were a year ago. But it’s a continuous function, not a binary one—there’s not a sharp cutoff between “you” and “not you” in possible-person-space.
Furthermore, ‘the difference in the pattern’ seems both somehow hard to quantify and more importantly—it doesn’t look like something that could have a clear cut-off as in ‘if the pattern differs by more than 10% you are a different person’. At any rate, whatever that cut-off is, it still seems pretty clear that tenoke!2000 differs enough from me to be considered dead.
Or in this example—enhanced Eliezer (imagine that the number of enhancements is massive) and non-enhanced Eliezer who can’t even begin to think about the stuff that enhanced Eliezer does.
I question how well your delta-person-function corresponds to an intuitive notion of “similar people”.
“Same person” is a slightly-blurry blob of feature space concentrated heavily around a-person-as-they-are-at-the-moment. It generally includes the person they were a second ago, and (to a lesser extent) the person they were a year ago. But it’s a continuous function, not a binary one—there’s not a sharp cutoff between “you” and “not you” in possible-person-space.
Well, to quote myself:
Or in this example—enhanced Eliezer (imagine that the number of enhancements is massive) and non-enhanced Eliezer who can’t even begin to think about the stuff that enhanced Eliezer does.