[ExI] Let's play What If.
    Stathis Papaioannou 
    stathisp at gmail.com
       
    Thu Oct 28 08:17:11 UTC 2010
    
    
  
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> If I know *in advance* that the information is going to be kept from me, I'm
> not foolish enough to authorize the procedure. If it is going to be done
> anyway by an evil scientist, whatever I say about it, I'm screwed. My
> recommendation: stay well clear of mad or bad scientists, despots, tyrants,
> and other brutes.
The point is not that the information is kept from you, it is that it
doesn't make any difference when it is revealed. You are a copy of the
Damien of a year ago, now long disintegrated. Perhaps you hadn't
considered this fact before. Now that you have considered it, does it
change anything?
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Stathis Papaioannou
    
    
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