@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 I appear to care about things like me, even if I'm not causally connected to them in any way
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@The_Lagrangian that's basilistics, I have a meta-block in place for some of these ideas
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via roko's basilisk, a million mes are being tortured by an alien AI right now. How come *I* don't notice? This is exceedingly unlikely.
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@The_Lagrangian I'm oddly unbothered by basilisks given how much similar ideas weird me out - lucky adaptation, I guess
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