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Suppose that a digital computer is having a conscious experience. We could then make an exact copy of this conscious experience and run it on a second computer. Does this act have any moral significance? If the experience is a happy one, have we increased the amount of happiness in...

I wrote the below about a year ago as an entry into 3blue1brown's "Summer of Math Exposition" contest. It is supposed to be an introduction to anthropic reasoning, based on the ideas in the book 'Anthropic Bias' by Nick Bostrom, that doesn't assume a strong maths background. It uses the...