[ExI] Let's play What If.

[John Clark]

On Oct 26, 2010, at 7:35 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:

> If you were given the choice of being duplicated a million times with
> one of the copies being tortured or once with one of the copies being
> tortured would you have any preference for one or the other case,
> given that in both cases it is certain that there will be one
> individual who is tortured?

It wouldn't matter, there is still a 100% chance I will be tortured and a 100% chance I will not be. Making a million copies, or one copy, or no copy at all doesn't matter until things happen to one them but not the other and they start to differentiate. A million identical copies of you running in a million identical environments would produce only one conscious being until Quantum Mechanics or something else got then out of sync. Torture would count as something else. 

  John K Clark 

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