On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 at 7:51 pm, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 9:47 AM, Terren Suydam <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Then we agree that expectations are important, since the wrong ones can >> kill us. >> > > > Forget important, expectations are not even meaningful in thought > experiments involving people duplicating machines if > > it is not clearly stated what is being expected. And if there is no way to > tell if the prediction made > > before the duplication turned out to be correct or not even AFTER the > duplication is completed because of the frequent use of personal pronouns > in a world that contains personal pronoun duplicating machines > > then the entire exercise is useless. > Asking about your expectations is an attempt to show what your implicit beliefs about your future are. You explicitly state that you have no beliefs about your future in duplication experiments, because, you claim, the question is meaningless. But what implications does this have have for your decisions when faced with one of these experiments? For example, if you are duplicated in Washington and Moscow would you like your assets to be distributed 50/50 to the copies, or would you prefer that you be declared legally dead and your assets distributed assets distributed to your heirs as set out in your will? -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
