[ExI] simulation as an improvement over reality

[spike]

Subject: RE: [ExI] simulation as an improvement over reality

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>> 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...Stathis Papaioannou

>No way.  You shoot the copy of you.  Then at your trial you argue he shot himself.   spike

If you are lucky, the court rules you innocent by reason of justifiable suicide.  You shot yourself in self-defense, before you could shoot you.

Come now, do we not already know the identity debates always eventually devolve to silliness?

spike