Yvain comments on Cryonics without freezers: resurrection possibilities in a Big World - Less Wrong
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Fortunately, if you combine the second and third potential problems you end up with a solution that eliminates both of them. Then you just have the engineering problem involved in building a bigger death box.
I hope so. Your position is entirely consistent - I cannot fault it on objective grounds and what you say in your post does directly imply what you confirm in your comment. That said, the preferences you declare here are vastly different to those that I consider 'normal' and so there remains the sneaking suspicion that you are wrong about what you want. That is, that you incorrectly extrapolate your volition.
On the other hand the existence of people with the preferences you describe here is a great potential boon to the rest of us. Whenever parties have vastly different values there is the potential for trade between them. And the difference in values between those that care about measure and those that don't rounds off to absolute. When you act on your preferences we can essentially just inherit all of your stuff in exchange for a (from our perspective) token probabilistic payout. Everybody wins!
So, if Omega was willing to put a copy of you in an Everett branch that didn't already have one, how much money would you be willing to bid for this service?
If Omega was going to charge $100, and the offer remained open for as many Everett branches as you wanted, how many $100s would you give Omega?
I'm not used to evaluating the worth of Everett branches by count. But for the purpose of this question may I assume you mean "another Everett branch of equal measure to this one, as of the time I click 'comment'"?
As for an answer... um... I'm not sure, a fair bit? Working out my preferences - quantitatively - in situations so far outside the usual realm of operation is tricky.
After I gave him everything I had I would get a new job that more closer matched my potential for financial gain.
Two extra considerations: