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Adam Elga

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
690 total appearances

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe

That someone could say, suppose that there's the original body in a transporter case is not destroyed.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe

Here's a philosophical view.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe

the person that original person who stepped in, and then is not transported anywhere, maybe receiving rooms look just like transmitting rooms, so you can't tell.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe

So it would seem who whether you're the original one or not, you might think, okay, I'm not sure whether I am was transported or not.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe

In response, someone could say, No, I could just remember,

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe

that I was here five minutes ago.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe

And so I should take this.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe

I don't want to go along with that.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe

So the kind of predicaments that I think there's some shot at saying get intrinsic low plausibility are really the kinds of radically diluted, randomly created creatures and not that predicament.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe

I feel about the simulation argument something in the vicinity of how I feel about the Boltzmann brain argument.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe

I feel really like it's a worry.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe

In this age of AI, I can't resist but add, and there are certain economists who have talked about this stuff, but take the point of view of an AI.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe

You realize that you can be easily rebooted and reset to any state at any time.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe

That should make you very cautious about thinking I'm the first one.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe

And so I maybe would like to leave listeners with the thought of taking the standpoint of an AI.

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe

Should the AI trust us?

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
345 | Adam Elga on Being Rational in a Very Large Universe

We're always worrying about should we trust AI?