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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/23/2014 11:59 PM, Kelly Anderson
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<pre wrap="">On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Ben <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bbenzai@yahoo.com"><bbenzai@yahoo.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Kelly Anderson wrote:
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<pre wrap="">if you fork your life experience to do two things at once, then every
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<pre wrap="">remerge those threads, one of the forks is gonna die... Jusy saying.
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Sorry, I don't understand this. How is one fork dying? And which one?
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I'm using fork in the Linux or Unix sense.
That is, I create a copy of myself (usually in VR) and have it go learn
something, or have some experience, or do some work, then I merge that
copy's experiences into my primary memory. At that point, the purpose of
the copy is finished, and its' execution can be terminated. This is
essentially killing a copy of yourself.
Does that make slightly more sense?
-Kelly
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Have you read Greg Egan's Quarantine? It doesn't matter if you're
"killing" a copy of yourself, since all of those experiences are
assimilated into a single mind that retains a certain perspective in
its perceptions and memories... It all adds up to normality.<br>
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