[ExI] Let's play What If.

John Clark jonkc at bellsouth.net
Wed Oct 27 05:16:24 UTC 2010


On Oct 27, 2010, at 12:18 AM, Damien Broderick wrote:

> If there are a million copies to be made, you remain the original instance who was there all along and can have no risk of being tortured.

That is incorrect. There is a 100% chance that when you enter the duplication machine your subjective experience will be of being instantly transported to a torture chamber with a lot of resulting unpleasantness; and there is a 100% chance your subjective experience will be of entering the machine and finding that absolutely nothing happens to you. 

 John K Clark
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