[ExI] What should survive and why?

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On 07/05/07, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote:
>
> Stathis writes
>
> > On 06/05/07, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote:
>
> > > Though even here peculiar paradoxes await.
> > > Let's say you would find immortality sufficient, provided also that it
> > > was subjectively great beyond your wildest dreams, and it even
> included
> > > a vast community of somewhat like-minded individuals.  Would y'all
> then
> > > be satisfied by the following?
>
> That was my real question.  Of course, you may not want---probably
> wisely---to answer for "y'all", but I was interested in your answer
> for yourself.
>
> My point has to do with objectivity vs. subjectivity. On *just* the
> subjective view, what's wrong?  You live forever, etc.  But *objectively*,
> your share of the future is rather small, we might say.
>
> I then went on in order to clarify that concern:
>
> > > In 2061 an AI ruling Earth has extremely recently discovered certain
> > > astounding things, such as how using quantum effects to produce
> > > infinitely many computations over a finite interval of time. Now, how
> > > to deal with all the troglotyte humans? ....next quarter second,
> > > the third second, so that at the end, objectively, after two seconds
> > > the Ruling AI has eliminated the resource problem insofar as regards
> > > y'all. Or do you want more?  Do you want *objectively* to be around
> > > at all times and places in the future?
> >
> > Subjective immortality is acceptable.
>
> Hmm?  I didn't know that I was asking anything about morality  :-)
>
> I really do want to know if---under this admittedly very wild hypothesis
> ---you would find the prospect of such a future alluring or depressing.
> And whichever answer, why so?
>

I don't even see it as an issue: I would be quite happy with the scenario
you propose, and I would be unhappy with objectively living forever while
subjectively living for only a limited time.

-- 
Stathis Papaioannou
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