<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 2:03 PM Keith Henson <<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I find your reasons for making copies unpersuasive. A copy would be<br>
like you including desires.<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Your copies, or my copies?<br><br>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.</div><div><br></div><div>The world is not full of people who are only like you.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 9:12 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat<br><<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 11:33 AM Keith Henson <<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com" target="_blank">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> If you can make a case for flooding with copies, I would like to read it.<br>><br>
> 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.<br>
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Now you have a world full of copies.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If the threat doesn't come or was much less than expected, perhaps.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div></div></div>