[ExI] Here's an idea: Let's torture sane people! =P

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Thu Oct 28 08:28:28 UTC 2010


2010/10/28 Alan Grimes <agrimes at speakeasy.net>:
> I'm feeling about ten different emotions about this subject simultaneously.
>
> My post the other day had many intents, despite being written as a
> bedtime flash of inspiration.
>
> First, as I have already shown, it effectively tricked the uploaders
> into arguing against their own fetish by forcing them to argue that no
> link of any kind exists between the original an the copy.

Other than a link of information, the same link as that between the
versions of Alan Grimes at different time points in his life.

> And then a miracle happened. Instead of launching into a thread about
> radical intelligence augmentation through neural interfacing, someone
> introjected "torture" into the argument. -- as if it has any relevance
> to anything outside of Guantanimo Bay (mercy be upon those poor souls). =\

Whether you feel apprehensive about a version of yourself being
tortured is an indication of whether you consider that that version is
"you". If I told you you were going to be tortured next week but don't
worry, because you have a rapid metabolism your brain will be made up
of completely different matter by then, will you stop worrying?


-- 
Stathis Papaioannou



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