First of all, how does the amazing-ness of an experience depend on your lack of memory about it?
The 20th time I watch a movie is not as enjoyable as the first time, because I already know what’s going to happen. If I had no memory of the movie, then the 20th time would be just as enjoyable as the first time.
(Have you ever heard someone say, “I wish I could forget about this movie so I could watch it for the first time again”?)
The other objection is a thought experiment involving a human life under an alternate value system:
I don’t really understand what the thought experiment is trying to say.
I was trying to say that human intuitions imply that true pleasure is in diverse experiences (see, e.g. Yudkowsky’s Fun Theory sequence). Unfortunately, I struggle to understand how one can quantize the utility of existence for armies of humans. The closest thing to a quantitative measure with which I’ve come up is this experiment and efficiency of mankind solving hard problems.
Under the value system from the experiment, your value wouldn’t be diminished by the fact that you were copied, since you and the copy could be prompted with different problems and make progress on both (or try different approaches to the same problem and make more progress than in isolation).
The 20th time I watch a movie is not as enjoyable as the first time, because I already know what’s going to happen. If I had no memory of the movie, then the 20th time would be just as enjoyable as the first time.
(Have you ever heard someone say, “I wish I could forget about this movie so I could watch it for the first time again”?)
I don’t really understand what the thought experiment is trying to say.
I was trying to say that human intuitions imply that true pleasure is in diverse experiences (see, e.g. Yudkowsky’s Fun Theory sequence). Unfortunately, I struggle to understand how one can quantize the utility of existence for armies of humans. The closest thing to a quantitative measure with which I’ve come up is this experiment and efficiency of mankind solving hard problems.
Under the value system from the experiment, your value wouldn’t be diminished by the fact that you were copied, since you and the copy could be prompted with different problems and make progress on both (or try different approaches to the same problem and make more progress than in isolation).