[ExI] Machines of Loving Grace

[Keith Henson]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 9:12 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
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> On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 11:33 AM Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
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I find your reasons for making copies unpersuasive.  A copy would be
like you including desires.
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>> If you can make a case for flooding with copies, I would like to read it.
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> The best one off the top of my head is a survival situation: some external force (like law enforcement) is going to attempt to terminate or severely reduce my life, but I have enough forewarning to make a flood of copies.  The likelihood that at least one will escape is much greater if there is far more than just one of me.

Now you have a world full of copies.

> This is a short-term solution, that usually involves me committing to terminate or obey if I wind up as an instance that did not live free so long as at least one other instance does live free, which I could perhaps do in the short term but not forever.  It also requires an ability for, if multiple instances of me do wind up living free, those instances to come together to wind up with only one instance in the end.  Some sort of merging (unforking) would be ideal, especially if there was a prospect of some instances being forced to exist in subpar conditions (such as prison) for long durations before the merged free instance had a chance to merge them or otherwise deal with them.
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