The alternate version of you was kind enough to wish for someone else’s health and happiness, and wanted nothing for themself.
That’s why I specified “still me, with my goals, values, etc.” I KNOW myself and this wouldn’t happen.
What WOULD happen is “You get a machine you cannot understand. You spend days / weeks / years trying to get it to do SOMETHING, ANYTHING, but it never does. Then, one day, after wasting countless hours of your life, you get it to turn on and it immediately causes <terrible, life ruining disaster> before spinning out of control and tearing itself apart.”
That’s why I specified “still me, with my goals, values, etc.” I KNOW myself and this wouldn’t happen.
What WOULD happen is “You get a machine you cannot understand. You spend days / weeks / years trying to get it to do SOMETHING, ANYTHING, but it never does. Then, one day, after wasting countless hours of your life, you get it to turn on and it immediately causes <terrible, life ruining disaster> before spinning out of control and tearing itself apart.”