X0: everyone currently alive dies You may note that this is already the case: we’re all slated for death within a few decades, unless something odd changes that. If we were already personally immortal, I think it’s likely we would regard it as a kind of x-risk - but a less drastic version than the ones below.
Interesting article. Certainly, a world without subjective experience and second order values would be “valueless” as we understand that term to be, as I believe (and will argue) that values are based on conscious reflection.
Yet I wouldn’t describe such a world as “bad” since such a world would be empty of “good” and “bad.” It’s an unsettling thought certainly, like death typically is, but I wouldn’t view that world as any more bad as the world “before” there was any conscious life.
It’s like the stoic’s conception of death. Presumably you didn’t care about your non-existence before you were born, so why does your non-existence matter after your birth?
Interesting article. Certainly, a world without subjective experience and second order values would be “valueless” as we understand that term to be, as I believe (and will argue) that values are based on conscious reflection.
Yet I wouldn’t describe such a world as “bad” since such a world would be empty of “good” and “bad.” It’s an unsettling thought certainly, like death typically is, but I wouldn’t view that world as any more bad as the world “before” there was any conscious life.
It’s like the stoic’s conception of death. Presumably you didn’t care about your non-existence before you were born, so why does your non-existence matter after your birth?