I think given the scenario, I roll over and go back to sleep. Put simply that’s such a silly god I’m not going to pay any attention to it.
Another thought, “exactly as it unfolded” suggests I will have no awareness of any prior loop as I certainly have none now. Moreover, such an awareness necessarily changes how my life would unfold. There simply seems no difference between the two options from a practical perspective for me.
Agreed, there does seem to be no practical difference for the you-in-bed. But that feature seems to be the whole point of this scenario, so I think pointing that out is just a form of debasing the thought-experiment (which also ends with the sentence “if you were forced to pick”, I might add).
Initially I thought I’d pick #2. My life was kind of fine enough, so I’d rather prefer to give a copy of me the privilege of experiencing my life than not.
However, assuming world#take2 is populated by “real people” (aka. complete simulations, not just some p-zombie Truman show shenanigans with fake “people outputs” who lack subjective experience) the question really becomes something else: Does the “video-clip” that was your life contain enough fun-for-you-and-others to outweigh the suffering of all the real/perfectly simulated people that would be re-living their existences alongside you? Kind of makes me tend strongly towards #1 just to get it over and done with, there’s just still too much shit happening in this world. Just to be safe in order to not commit atrocities for a bit of mediocre hedonistic fun it is #1 for me. Life’s fun but who needs it.
I think given the scenario, I roll over and go back to sleep. Put simply that’s such a silly god I’m not going to pay any attention to it.
Another thought, “exactly as it unfolded” suggests I will have no awareness of any prior loop as I certainly have none now. Moreover, such an awareness necessarily changes how my life would unfold. There simply seems no difference between the two options from a practical perspective for me.
This answer has too many upvotes in my view.
I suspect it was here early in the discussion and people upvoted for whatever reason it is people upvote early comments.
Agreed, there does seem to be no practical difference for the you-in-bed. But that feature seems to be the whole point of this scenario, so I think pointing that out is just a form of debasing the thought-experiment (which also ends with the sentence “if you were forced to pick”, I might add).
Initially I thought I’d pick #2. My life was kind of fine enough, so I’d rather prefer to give a copy of me the privilege of experiencing my life than not.
However, assuming world#take2 is populated by “real people” (aka. complete simulations, not just some p-zombie Truman show shenanigans with fake “people outputs” who lack subjective experience) the question really becomes something else: Does the “video-clip” that was your life contain enough fun-for-you-and-others to outweigh the suffering of all the real/perfectly simulated people that would be re-living their existences alongside you? Kind of makes me tend strongly towards #1 just to get it over and done with, there’s just still too much shit happening in this world. Just to be safe in order to not commit atrocities for a bit of mediocre hedonistic fun it is #1 for me. Life’s fun but who needs it.