Imagine waking up in a strange facility. There's a tray in front of you with a pill and a label that says "eat me." In World A, the drug causes amnesia--after

Imagine waking up in a strange facility. There's a tray in front of you with a pill and a label that says "eat me." In World A, the drug causes amnesia--after 12 hours, you'll fall asleep, and completely forget the preceding 12 hours. In World B, the drug is a suicide pill--after 12 hours, you will fall asleep and die painlessly. However, just before you woke up, a "backup" was uploaded. And upon your death, this backup will be restored. It seems to me that the subjective experience(s) in both cases would be the same. But we consider the latter "death" and the former "too much to drink." (http://www.overcomingbias.com/2016/04/is-forgotten-party-death.html http://www.overcomingbias.com/2016/04/is-forgotten-party-dea... got me thinking in these terms--it's by Robin Hanson, who is one of the examples from the article.)