one is that two Eliezers would presumably be better than one, though I don’t have a strong intuition about the optimum number of Eliezers.
Once you’ve uploaded I would expect it to be fairly trivial create as many Eliezers as one likes, all with the advantages of being uploaded. But it isn’t implausible that there will be some unique advantage to being meat… it just depends on contingent features of the world in which this happens. Features that no one is going to be able to predict reliably.
I recall once having serious objections to the idea of duplicating but those have disappeared over time. I suspect my copies would empathize with each other and I don’t think I would worry about ‘becoming the unhappy twin’. Though that might change if owned significant property that one or the other copy wouldn’t inherit. The flip side of that coin is that I think I would be alright ‘killing myself’ if I knew a copy of myself (which only differed in very recent memories) was still alive and kicking. Though the longer the divergence the less okay I would be with it. What I hope might one day be possible is integrating the memories of multiple copies so that I could merge and split repeatedly and not have to miss out on anything.
Once you’ve uploaded I would expect it to be fairly trivial create as many Eliezers as one likes, all with the advantages of being uploaded. But it isn’t implausible that there will be some unique advantage to being meat… it just depends on contingent features of the world in which this happens. Features that no one is going to be able to predict reliably.
I recall once having serious objections to the idea of duplicating but those have disappeared over time. I suspect my copies would empathize with each other and I don’t think I would worry about ‘becoming the unhappy twin’. Though that might change if owned significant property that one or the other copy wouldn’t inherit. The flip side of that coin is that I think I would be alright ‘killing myself’ if I knew a copy of myself (which only differed in very recent memories) was still alive and kicking. Though the longer the divergence the less okay I would be with it. What I hope might one day be possible is integrating the memories of multiple copies so that I could merge and split repeatedly and not have to miss out on anything.