Sure, happy to clarify: 1. The “before new info” means that it would feel unfair if you took the deal and then God was like “well, I gotta kill you because in 6 months they’re going to have a breakthrough and do the first successful human reanimation”. You’d be like “well, then I would just have signed up in 6 months when I found out. So unless I would have died in the next 6 months, you shouldn’t kill me”. Alternatively the gamble could be that God kills you if you wouldn’t have ended up signing up for cryonics by the time you die and it would have worked. 2. Well yeah, I’m assuming that the point of your analogy is to construct it so that the hypothetical decision you make tells you what your actual decision should be on cryonics. If it’s just a whimsical thought experiment then there’s no need to match everything up. If it is intended to mean that someone who would require more than the current cost of cryonics to take the deal should sign up for cryonics, then it does have to match up stuff, because it is entirely coherent for someone to, for example, neither want to be revived into a dystopia nor be killed immediately.
The unconscious replica is intended to keep the impact on others the same. No guilt about traumatizing your children, for example, because they would still grow up with 2 loving parents. So you’re just worried about whether you want money or life and not moral duties you might have to avoid being killed prematurely.
Yeah, you understood my example. It’s not particularly deep. It’s just that I find that many people have a pessimism bias, so I can feel myself thinking “cryonics probably won’t work” but if I imagine someone evil wants to revive and hurt me I think “but there’s a chance it would work...”. For the “depends how bad”, I think the 2 ways one can use the idea are a) set that it’s exactly as much worse than death as you expect reanimated life would be better than death, or b) just play with different severities and see if your gut estimate of the probability of revival changes.
Sure, happy to clarify:
1. The “before new info” means that it would feel unfair if you took the deal and then God was like “well, I gotta kill you because in 6 months they’re going to have a breakthrough and do the first successful human reanimation”. You’d be like “well, then I would just have signed up in 6 months when I found out. So unless I would have died in the next 6 months, you shouldn’t kill me”. Alternatively the gamble could be that God kills you if you wouldn’t have ended up signing up for cryonics by the time you die and it would have worked.
2. Well yeah, I’m assuming that the point of your analogy is to construct it so that the hypothetical decision you make tells you what your actual decision should be on cryonics. If it’s just a whimsical thought experiment then there’s no need to match everything up. If it is intended to mean that someone who would require more than the current cost of cryonics to take the deal should sign up for cryonics, then it does have to match up stuff, because it is entirely coherent for someone to, for example, neither want to be revived into a dystopia nor be killed immediately.
The unconscious replica is intended to keep the impact on others the same. No guilt about traumatizing your children, for example, because they would still grow up with 2 loving parents. So you’re just worried about whether you want money or life and not moral duties you might have to avoid being killed prematurely.
Yeah, you understood my example. It’s not particularly deep. It’s just that I find that many people have a pessimism bias, so I can feel myself thinking “cryonics probably won’t work” but if I imagine someone evil wants to revive and hurt me I think “but there’s a chance it would work...”. For the “depends how bad”, I think the 2 ways one can use the idea are a) set that it’s exactly as much worse than death as you expect reanimated life would be better than death, or b) just play with different severities and see if your gut estimate of the probability of revival changes.