From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Tue Jun 11 2002 - 05:42:29 MDT
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Lee Corbin wrote:
> 2. You are informed by the OS that you have been scheduled
> to run exactly twice in the history of the universe.
> Thus, *this* may be the first or second time from your
> perspective (although since they're identical, the point
> is moot, and I give it only for the purpose of description).
> You have the following choice: if you press button A then
> the second run will be terminated precisely at the moment
> that the button is pressed. (In other words, your first
> run continues regardless of whether you press A or not;
> but the second run is affected.) Do you press the button
> for ten dollars?
No, even if both trajectories are to be identical. I would try to remove
constraints keeping them both synched, thus allowing them to become two
separate people.
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