[ExI] Is a copy of you really you?

[William Flynn Wallace]

. At any rate, it's trivial to compare the original and the copy to detect
any mistakes.

-*Dave*

*Not if you are comparing one 20K gene chart to another.  bill w*

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 10:39 AM Dave Sill via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 5:14 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> I was thinking mainly of genes.
>>
>> I wonder if computers hiccup.  There is a thing that happens in our
>> brains called 'involuntary rest pauses'.  You can test yourself:  just tap
>> a finger on some surface and keep it up.  Sooner or later you will lose the
>> rhythm and miss a tap.  Extroverts miss more than introverts.
>>
>> So if computers have IRPs (Could there be small changes in electricity
>> that accounts for errors?)
>> , then a copied code will be short of perfect.  Does this happen this
>> way? Given enough length of the program I am guessing that errors will
>> happen.  Then you have a bug, I suppose, which you have to fix.
>>
>
> Computers can have all kinds of glitches: hardware problems, software
> problems, power problems, etc. Almost all have at least parity memory,
> meaning that errors will be detected. Most servers have error-correcting
> memory, which means that most errors will be automatically fixed. At any
> rate, it's trivial to compare the original and the copy to detect any
> mistakes.
>
> -Dave
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