10 days of connected experience vs X days of disconnected experience? Honestly, I can’t compound experiences/values very much in 10 days, so the amnesia doesn’t cost that much—somewhere between 11 and 20 days seems reasonable to me.
I know people with severe memory problems, and they enjoy life a significant fraction (at least 10%, perhaps 80%, some days over 100%) as much as they might if they remembered yesterday.
This question gets much harder for 2, 10, or 50 years. The amount of joy/satisfaction/impact that can be had in those timeframes by building on previous days, is perhaps orders of magnitude higher if an agent has continuity than if not.
10 days of connected experience vs X days of disconnected experience? Honestly, I can’t compound experiences/values very much in 10 days, so the amnesia doesn’t cost that much—somewhere between 11 and 20 days seems reasonable to me.
I know people with severe memory problems, and they enjoy life a significant fraction (at least 10%, perhaps 80%, some days over 100%) as much as they might if they remembered yesterday.
This question gets much harder for 2, 10, or 50 years. The amount of joy/satisfaction/impact that can be had in those timeframes by building on previous days, is perhaps orders of magnitude higher if an agent has continuity than if not.
No X is large enough.
I think 10,000 or so. Assuming the days are meaningfully different.
I’m not sure whether X keeps getting more valuable-to-me as it becomes larger than 1