[ExI] Machines of Loving Grace

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 2:03 PM Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:

> I find your reasons for making copies unpersuasive.  A copy would be
> like you including desires.
>

Your copies, or my copies?

My copies would copy my desires, not yours.  I could do the
collective-for-only-one-survivor thing, for a short term.  I know there are
others who could do it much longer than I.

The world is not full of people who are only like you.

On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 9:12 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 11:33 AM Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> If you can make a case for flooding with copies, I would like to read
> it.
> >
> > 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.
>

If the threat doesn't come or was much less than expected, perhaps.

It's the old K-selected/r-selected thing, going back long before humanity.
If I need to go r-selected for a bit to reproduce exactly myself to ensure
my survival, sure.  Fortunately, while I can imagine such a scenario, the
likelihood of it actually coming to pass within the foreseeable future
(even rather extending that span of time to include a time when such
copying becomes feasible) seems small.
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