[ExI] simulation as an improvement over reality

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Ben Zaiboc <bbenzai at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Your argument is the same as the old one about a person who, after being copied, should be quite happy to shoot himself.  Naturally that is silly.  Nobody would be happy to shoot themselves, regardless of how many identical copies of them were in existence.

Unless the identical copies are in lockstep and shooting oneself will
leave at least one of the copies running. In that case, the stream of
consciousness of the terminated copies would continue uninterrupted.


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Stathis Papaioannou