[ExI] Digital identity

[Giulio Prisco]

"Reward/benefit" is subjective. What one sees as reward/benefit could
be seen as punishment/damage by another. I am for a world where
everyone is free to pursue the rewards and benefits that _they_ want,
without damaging others. This is relevant to uploading: I want the
science and technology of uploading developed and explained, to permit
everyone to make _their_ own choice.

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:
> On 27/04/2013 04:43, Alan Grimes wrote:
>>
>> Anders Sandberg wrote:
>>>
>>> Reward/benefit to *whom*? This is one of those tricky indexical
>>> situations, where depending on your definition very different systems matter
>>> and even the kind of benefit they gain differs.
>>
>>
>> It's only tricky because you are trying to wring the wrong answer out of
>> the logic.
>
>
> And you know the right answer because you do not care to check any
> alternatives.
>
> In this case I am, if you haven't been noticing, not even arguing for a
> single position but trying to explain what the problem is. I certainly have
> my own view and presented it, but my main point is that personal identity is
> regarded as a deeply problematic concept by more or less everybody who has
> professionally studied it.
>
>
>
> --
> Anders Sandberg,
> Future of Humanity Institute
> Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University
>
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