yeah I used to be a strong Tegmarkian as well but I'm less on that side nowadays space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/m
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@The_Lagrangian Why the shift? I was definitely Not Okay for a while after you explained Tegmarkian universes way back when
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I am more concerned nowadays on focusing only on models of the world that explain future experience
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@The_Lagrangian Dust and Boltzmann brains are intensely vertigo-inducing for me, and this approach doesn't seem to solve it
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@The_Lagrangian yes, that would've been the other branch of the thread
Q: are two identical uploads the *same* person?
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@The_Lagrangian Fiction's more efficient at exploring these questions than philosophy: Egan gave me more tools than Tegmark
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@The_Lagrangian reason I ask is: under dust and sameness, these boltzmann brains are not as vertigo inducing at all
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@The_Lagrangian your copies are just the same mind running in other places, not even relevant to your current experience
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@The_Lagrangian I accept they're not relevant to my current experience, but they still seem to matter
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@The_Lagrangian Just like I'd care, if in an abstract way, if I'd been tortured in the past and memory-wiped
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@The_Lagrangian yeah but then, what damage remains? if you forgot, it's arguably irrelevant to current-self-formation
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@The_Lagrangian exactly - which is why I don't know why I care. Probably irrelevant intuitions from evolving in fleshy substrate
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@The_Lagrangian ...where you don't have to worry about copies being made of you and wiped
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