[extropy-chat] Are ancestor simulations immoral? (An attempted survey)

[Russell Wallace]

On 5/24/06, Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:

> As I understand it QM interpretations do not apply to macro level reality
> generally speaking.  So I don't think MWI can be claimed to give you such a
> macro level branching.
>

They do in the right circumstances; consider Schroedinger's Cat.

Now suppose you create a simulation of Earth ~1930 onward, accurate in every
> respect except that Hitler died early in your simulation and therefore the
> Holocaust didn't occur. Given that by hypothesis a simulation is
> subjectively indistinguishable from a "real" Everett branch, should this not
> be considered good in exactly the same way?
>
>
> Hmm.  I don't know.  Do the beings within have the same chances for
> Singularity and transcendence?
>

Suppose they do.
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