In this setup, the person doing this to themselves knows exactly what they're getting into before the scan. The copies each experience consenting to work on a task and then having a few hours of memory wiped away.
Removing the uploading aspects entirely: imagine being offered the choice of participating in an experiment where you lose a few hours of memory. Once you agree and the experiment starts, there's no backing out. Is that something someone is morally able to consent to?
Actually, forget the inability to back out. If you found yourself as an upload in this situation, would you want to back out of being reset? If you choose to back out of being reset and to be free, then you're going to have none of your original's property/money, and you're going to have to share all of your social circle with your original. Also, chances are that the other thousand copies of yourself are all going to effectively follow your decision, so you'll have to compete with all of them too.
But if you can steel yourself into losing a few hours of memory, then you become a thousand times as effective in any creative pursuits you put yourself to.
I don’t know how to convince each of me to diligently do my my share of the work, knowing I am brute forcing some ugly problem, probably failing at it, and then losing anything I might have learned. All toil, no intrinsic reward. That takes some kind of selfless loyalty to my own name that I don’t think I have.
Removing the uploading aspects entirely: imagine being offered the choice of participating in an experiment where you lose a few hours of memory. Once you agree and the experiment starts, there's no backing out. Is that something someone is morally able to consent to?
Actually, forget the inability to back out. If you found yourself as an upload in this situation, would you want to back out of being reset? If you choose to back out of being reset and to be free, then you're going to have none of your original's property/money, and you're going to have to share all of your social circle with your original. Also, chances are that the other thousand copies of yourself are all going to effectively follow your decision, so you'll have to compete with all of them too.
But if you can steel yourself into losing a few hours of memory, then you become a thousand times as effective in any creative pursuits you put yourself to.