[ExI] Fw: Re: simulation as an improvement over reality

[Ben Zaiboc]

> > > 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.
> 
> 


 Weeeelll...
 
 If one of a set of copies in lock-step shoots itself, so do
 all the others!

 Ben Zaiboc